A range of cultural, arts, and sporting activities are due to come to the capital city during the course of 2020.

Gardeners working in Pho Tho-Ba Bo flower village in Can Tho are gearing up to launch a range of beautiful flower pots to the domestic market in order to meet the increasing demand that comes in the buildup to the Lunar New Year.

The Youth Cultural House in Ho Chi Minh City is currently hosting the Tet Viet festival with thousands of apricot branches and trees being planted, much to the delight of visitors.

Turmeric is usually used in cooking to add a spicy flavour to food, but it can also be used to treat gastric problems and to heal scars as well as a natural dye for traditional textiles in Vietnam.

For French sculptor Ariel Moscovici, joining local and international artists at the Art in the Forest (AIF) project in the northern province of Vinh Phuc was a unique experience.

Known as Bach Moc Luong Tu by trekkers, Ky Quan San mountain can be found situated between the northern provinces of Lao Cai and Lai Chau.

Vietnamese beauties Hoang Thuy, Luong Thuy Linh, Tuong San, and Ngoc Chau have all been named in the Top 125 of the Timeless Beauty rankings as voted on by prestigious global beauty website Missosology.

Nguyen Thi Sau, 54, has lived with a deformed face and burn marks for nearly five decades.

With the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, drawing near, wild peach trees can be seen on sale on almost every corner of Hanoi in order to serve the increasing demand ahead of the festive period.

There are at least 16 national and international competitions in math for students from the first to the 12th grades. Many of them are believed to be useless.

Vietnamese people believe that corruption is declining and that the nation’s anticorruption efforts are becoming increasingly more effective, according to the Vietnam Corruption Barometer 2019 report.

Le Thanh Van, a member of the Vietnam National Assembly’s Committee on Finance and Budget, talks to Radio Voice of Vietnam on how to select the right people for the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Tet (Lunar New Year) is fast approaching, and people in Boe Dau village in the northern province of Thai Nguyen’s Co Lung commune are busy preparing banh chung (square glutinous rice cakes).

At least half of Vietnam’s seas and islands will be surveyed and evaluated in terms of natural resources, and marine and island environment by 2030, at a scale of 1:500,000.

Vietnam’s population and family planning work in 2019 faced difficulties, especially in communications due to decreased funding, heard a conference in Hanoi on January 9.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on January 8 ordered agencies and localities to halt sending workers to the Middle East in the face of current tensions in the region.

Following a goalless draw in their opening tie against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the AFC U23 Championship 2020 finals in Thailand on January 10, Vietnam’s U23 side find themselves second in Group D.

General To Lam, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, has visited and extended his deep condolences to the families of three police officers who died while doing mission in Dong Tam commune, My Duc district, Hanoi.

A ceremony to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Ha Long Bay being recognised as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO for a second time will take place at Sun Carnival Plaza Square, Ha Long on January 12.

The first meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Committee was held in New York on January 10, focusing discussion on activities and priorities of ASEAN member states this year.

One of the priorities of Vietnam when joining the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the adherence to the UN Charter, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

Leaders of the United Nations and officials of some countries highly valued Vietnam’s international stature while meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh in New York on January 9 – 10.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just announced the top 10 culture, sports and tourism events of 2019.

After a hard day at work, Luu Chung Nghia from Vong La Commune on the outskirts of Hanoi returns home to his favourite hobby: creating toys from trash.

Students of Thanh Đa Secondary School in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District have greater awareness of air pollution and measures to prevent it after an air quality index monitor was installed in the school a few months ago.