Despite COVID-19 Lunar New Year is just around the corner. Markets in Hanoi and HCM City are stocking up with holiday goods. We take to the streets to ask how people prepare for their biggest holiday of the year.

A whale carcass weighing more than 10 tonnes was found washed up on the shore of Tien Thang village of Quang Xuong district in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on January 27.

Fishermen in Bình Định go fishing during the Tết holiday

While many people on the mainland are preparing to welcome a warm and happy Tết with their families, coast guard sailors are continuing their long routine patrol missions at sea.

By 2025, Vietnam expects to build a database on 4,000 dossiers of foreign technologies, acquire 400 technologies from abroad, and master 10 technologies. The respective figures are expected to reach 10,000, 1,000 and 30 by 2030.

From January 1, six laws will come into force, including the Law on Environmental Law on Vietnamese Guest Workers, Law Revising the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations, Law on Vietnam Border Defense, Law on Drug Prevention and Control, and Law Revising the 2015 Statistics Law and the List of National Statistical Indicators.

Households and others in Cà Mau Province who make OCOP items under the national one commune - one product programme are busy at work ahead of Tết (Lunar New Year) on February 1.

Students have been studying online for more than eight months due to the pandemic.

Fourteen photos have been selected from thousands of entries to win awards at a photo contest featuring the plastic and the environment in Việt Nam. 

The number of reported job scams during the COVID-19 pandemic has skyrocketed in Singapore, warned the police.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has recently signed a decision assigning the Finance Ministry to earmark over 7,820 tonnes of rice from the national reserve to 10 provinces on the occasion of the Lunar New Year and the between-crop period in early 2022.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presented Lunar New Year (Tet) gifts to border guards, poor workers and ethnic people in the northern province of Quang Ninh on January 26.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on January 26 sent a document to the ministries of foreign affairs, national defence, public security and transport, and people’s committees of centrally-run cities and provinces on creating favourable conditions for entrants to Vietnam on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Việt Nam reported 15,954 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday including 15,885 domestic cases and 69 imported cases in 61 provinces and cities.

The Ministry of Education and Training plans to hold a national startup festival for students on March 26 and 27 at the University of Transport Technology in the northern province of Vinh Phuc.

Police in the central province of Ha Tinh said on January 26 that they had detained a man travelling with 9kg of drugs and many related objects.

The HCM City People’s Committee has decided that students in kindergarten and from first to sixth grades can return to school from February 14.

The HCM City economy will recover this year and return to pre-pandemic levels, its People’s Committee chairman has said.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính attended the inauguration ceremony of the Tình Yêu (Love) Bridge, the first phase of the coastal ring road of Hạ Long – Cẩm Phả as well as the opening of Vân Đồn – Móng Cái Expressway in the north-eastern province of Quảng Ninh on Wednesday.