A flower market on Hanoi's Hang Luoc street is busy and bustling on the last days of the lunar year as many people come here to buy peach flowers or kumquat trees or just to enjoy the Tet atmosphere.

The Vietnamese consumer finance market at VND646 trillion, or $28 billion in 2016, was equal to 10 percent of GDP.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has asked Khanh Hoa provincial authorities to investigate the case where a tourism firm continued to encroach on Nha Trang Bay since last October.

 Watermelon carving service attracts many customers in the run-up to the lunar new year.

 Passing down through generations and continued with equal enthusiasm today, “Xong dat” (first footing), a Tet tradition in Vietnam, has always been associated with hopes for a fruitful year ahead. 

Only one hospital in Vietnam was equipped with surgical robots in 2014, but the figure had increased to four by the end of 2017.

Under the draft general education program, students would begin receiving sex education from the first grade. 

While large travel firms are optimistic about the government plan to attract 15 million foreign travelers in 2018 and obtain total revenue of VND620 trillion, some analysts doubt the feasibility.

Clean fresh water sources in the Mekong River Delta have shown signs of becoming exhausted, and the situation could become even more tragic as underground water is being polluted.

 As one of the fastest growing e-commerce countries in the world, Viet Nam is considered a high-potential market for e-logistics, analysts have said.

Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) spirit is in the air, as peach flowers bloom and kumquat fruit turn yellowish. Tay Ho district is the most famous destination for the Tet specialties in Hanoi.

A Vietnamese delegation attended the 41st Session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy on February 13-14.

 Like most other nations in Asia, Vietnamese people welcome the New Year according to the lunar calendar, and Tet Nguyen Dan (the lunar New Year Day) has long become the biggest festival of the nation. 

 A new spring is nearing. Not only Vietnamese but foreigners who are living in the country are very eager to welcome the Lunar New Year, the biggest festival of Vietnamese in a year.

 One of the oldest traditions that define the Lunar New Year in Hanoi is the city’s markets where people not only shop for flowers and goods but also bask in the cheerful atmosphere. 

The huge investments in Thaco, Vinamilk, the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) and Refrigeration Engineering Enterprise (REE) all have relations with Jardine Matheson.

Tet custom demands different sorts of cake to offer to the earth, heaven and  ancestors. Apart from bánh chưng (square cake), there are many other delicacies that have become popular over a thousand or more years. 

Making banh chung or creating peach blossoms from paper are among the festivities that kids from many public and private kindergartens across the nation have experienced in preparation for the upcoming Lunar New Year festival.

After a working session with the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), Google has changed its algorithm and refined its censorship unit, but this has not yet settled the problem. 

Dinh Quang Hieu, the student who won two gold medals at the 2016 and 2017 International Chemistry Olympiads, has won a VND6.4 billion ($279,600) scholarship from the world’s most prestigious technology institute, MIT, for the 2018-2022 period.