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.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 26 led a delegation of representatives from the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee to visit and present Tet (Lunar New Year) gifts to poor people, social policy beneficiaries, disadvantaged workers and Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

A person who came in contact with 13 imported cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant is the first recorded case of Omicron in the community.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyễn Kim Sơn has underlined the importance of reopening schools, stressing that sufficient conditions are in place to get children back to class.

The Hà Nội administration has permitted bus services to resume operations at full capacity from February 8, following an over-three-month hiatus caused by the pandemic.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the WorldShare organisation have recently signed a cooperation agreement to build 73 flood-resilient houses for poor households affected by storms in the central province of Quảng Bình.

Hanoi’s tourism has seen positive signs after COVID-19 outbreaks have taken its toll on the sector for more than two years, as new products built in the recent past have given a boost to the domestic tourism market since late 2021.