The State budget may face a shortfall of some VND42.3 trillion (US$1.8 billion) this year due to the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus, or Covid-19, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

A cat show was held in Hanoi for the first time last weekend, featuring over 50 cats of different breeds such as Exotic, Persian, and Maine-coon.

Nguyen Van Cong (not his real name) is happy that his family is under quarantine in Vinh Phuc Province.

Vu Thanh An is the only Vietnamese athlete at the Men’s Sabre Fencing World Cup which will be held on February 21-22 in Varsovie, Poland.

One of the issues put into discussion at the eighth session of the 14th National Assembly was the abuse of students by their teachers.

The upcoming ISSF World Cup in India is the last chance for Vietnamese shooters to earn spots in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

A bodybuilder, a watercolour artist and a film director are amongst those who have died in Wuhan.

The MoNRE has just issued a document to guide land-use regimes and ownership certification of non-residential construction, including condotel and officetel.

A desolate church in Van Ly commune, Hai Hau district, in Nam Dinh province still attracts many tourists and photographers as it is a beautiful spot where the sky, sea, sun, wind and sand converge.

Zo Paper Art & Craft is holding a workshop on making lanterns from Do paper from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday.

A British university says "an incorrect story... spiralled" from its research into the virus's spread.

SSI Research says the financial market in 2020 will be unpredictable and much less active than the forecasts released at the end of 2019.

Khanh Hoa is eligible to declare itself free of the Covid-19, while Thanh Hoa is speeding up procedures to announce the end of the coronavirus, stated Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam has rebuked the Quang Ninh government for turning away an Italian cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 tourists because of fears of the coronavirus and told the local authorities to draw lessons from the experience.

National authorities have seized nearly 112,500 face masks with unclear origins that were about to be put up for sale on the local market at a time when the public is in dire need of masks due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Police on Tuesday arrested a former director and vice director of construction contractors involved in a key expressway in central Vietnam after severe degradation was reported on the road merely a year following its opening.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered an analysis on a proposal to move Vietnam Railways (VR) under the umbrella of the transport ministry following legal confusion that left the corporation with no budget for railway maintenance.

All cars providing passenger transportation services via ride-hailing applications will be treated like taxis from the beginning of April, when the pilot project for tech-based cars ends.

An Olympic horse-riding club has opened at the Thien Ma Sports Centre in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, the National Sports Administration has announced.

Two exhibitions by a group of young artists are on display at HCM City’s The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre.

Minister of National Defence Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich had a meeting with his Lao counterpart Gen. Chansamone Chanyalath in Hanoi on February 18 within the framework of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat (ADMM Retreat).

A number of Vietnamese songwriters have composed songs about the coronavirus epidemic.

Some Diamond Princess passengers are being allowed to leave if they have tested negative for Covid-19.

These days, doctors, nurses and employees at Facility no.2 of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Kim Chung Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi, are accompanying with patients to fight against COVID-19.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to Vietnam Park Noh-wan on February 18 expressed their wish to further enhance their countries’ cooperation in vocational education.