A ceremony was held at Platform DK1/9 of Naval Region 2 on January 10 to pay tribute to soldiers who laid down their lives on Vietnam’s southern continental shelf.

Two animated films on Vietnamese history produced by the Việt Nam Cartoon Company will release on YouTube to celebrate the Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival, which begins on February 1. 

The APEC Statue Park expansion project was inaugurated in Hai Chau district of Central Da Nang city on January 10.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department is studying changes to the current format of car registration plates, according to the department's deputy director Colonel Do Thanh Binh.

After arriving in Cambodia, these jobs turn out to be fictitious. Instead, they are forced to repay their debts, often through sex work.

A number of ongoing traffic projects in HCM City, including bridges and roads, are nearing completion and are expected to be finished by year-end, Lương Minh Phúc, head of the city Management Board for Traffic Works Construction and Investment, has said.

The number of Vietnamese people going to work abroad decreased over the last two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The 2022 “Mua xuan cho em” (Spring for Children) programme raised more than 104 billion VND (4.58 million USD) to support disadvantaged and pandemic-hit children.

Over the past two years, almost all theatres have been affected pandemic restrictions. While many private drama theatres in HCM City have grown in popularity, those in Hà Nội are still finding ways of reaching new audiences. 

More than 1.4 million Vietnamese became unemployed in 2021, up 203,700 from the previous year, or 17 per cent, due to the impacts of the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, data from the General Statistics Office (GSO) showed.

Four new legal technology applications have been launched to support the Supreme People's Court. The launching ceremony was attended by National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in Hanoi.

HCM City’s Department of Health will focus on improving medical facilities and the HCM City Centre for Disease Control, training personnel and other efforts to strengthen the healthcare sector this year.

Despite his disability, teacher Phùng Văn Trường inspires those around him with his hard-work, dedication and willingness to help others

Fourteen old apartment buildings in Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 and Tân Bình in HCM City will be rebuilt in 2022 after long delays, city People’s Committee vice chairman Lê Hoà Bình has said.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has asked local departments under its wings to advise cities and provinces nationwide to cancel festivals and firework displays celebrating Tết, Việt Nam’s traditional New Year celebrated at the end of this month, as concerns rise over a spike in COVID-19 cases.

Applying artificial intelligence in the hydro-meteorological sector is essential, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh.[/su]

A collection of 2,022 tiger figurines handcrafted from jackfruit wood and laterite combined with lacquer is being completed to welcome 2022 or the year of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac.

Proactively popularising Việt Nam's cultural values to the world and bringing into play the soft power of culture is helping promote the country’s status in the international arena, and is one of the targets determined in the cultural development strategy until 2030.

Việt Nam reported 15,779 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday including 28 imported and 15,751 domestic cases.