Thủ Đức City and the HCM City Department of Science and Technology have signed an agreement to develop Thủ Đức into an innovative urban area and smart city by 2025.

Students in grades 7, 8, 10, and 11 in HCM City will return to school on January 4, three weeks after grades 9 and 12 students did so.

The capital city made up 2,100 of these new cases. This is the highest number in the city since the start of the pandemic.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed amending the 2013 Bidding Law toward promoting domestic production and procurement of innovative products, particularly green public procurement, and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state administration of bidding.

Hà Nội will set off fireworks at both high and low-altitudes from only one location - the Thống Nhất Park in Hai Bà Trưng District - on Lunar New Year’s Eve, according to a plan recently issued by the municipal People’s Committee.

Sixty four traffic accidents took place nationwide during the three-day solar New Year holiday (January 1-3), causing 38 deaths, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.

Vocational training development will be boosted to meet the diverse demands of the labour market and the higher requirements in human resources quality for national growth in the new period under a new Vocational Training Development Strategy in the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2045, which has just received approval.

Sa Pa township – a famous tourist destination in the northern province of Lao Cai welcomed 17,346 visitors during the three-day solar New Year holiday (January 1-3), according to head of the Culture-Information Office of the township Hoang Thi Vuong.

Hanoi will set off fireworks at both high-altitude and low-altitude from only one location - the Thong Nhat Park in Hai Ba Trung district - on the upcoming Lunar New Year’s Eve, according to a plan recently issued by the municipal People’s Committee.

Nguyen Tuan Hung, Deputy Director-General of the State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has become a member of the National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Fight.

The Ministry of Transport is coordinating with relevant ministries and agencies to develop a portfolio of transport projects and specific mechanisms for the implementation of the projects which will form part of the Government’s socio-economic recovery and development programme post-COVID-19, according to Minister Nguyen Van The.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment would uphold the role of the community in the process of planning, organizing and supervising the implementation of national target programs while the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committees at all levels would take the main responsibility for supervising national target programs.

Commercial banks under special control could be allowed to provide guarantees for future houses if they are not prohibited from doing so.

This is the first time Hà Nội has recorded more than 2,000 new infections in a day.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has approved a directive to strengthen measures on care for and protection of children affected by COVID-19.

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, has received a Knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to the fight against COVID-19.

The agricultural sector has overcome difficulties given the COVID-19 impacts to meet its 2021 targets, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan told the Vietnam News Agency.

Twenty road accidents took place on January 2 nationwide, causing 12 deaths and injured 13 others.