Hundreds of disadvantaged workers have received gifts and free bus tickets to return home for the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

All construction on roads and pavements must be halted or completed by Friday to ensure traffic safety for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, Hanoi’s transportation department announced on Sunday.

A report by securities firm SSI says deposit interest rates are likely to be cut by 0.5- 1 percentage point this year, and lending interest rates would also be cut by at least 0.5 percentage points as required by the Government.

The southern central province of Quang Ngai plans to invest VND2.8 trillion (US$121.2 million) in a wastewater treatment system from 2020 to 2025.

People have been advised to restrict outdoors exercise, close windows and doors, and wear protective masks to protect themselves from PM2.5 fine dust.

While the number of ads about property sales increased by 40 percent in 2019, the number of ads about house and room leasing increased by 50 percent. The rent also increased sharply by 30-35 percent.

Following her gold medal at the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines, weightlifter Vuong Thi Huyen has set her sights on the Tokyo Olympics later this year.

Universities in Vietnam have had an increasing number of scientific articles published in prestigious international journals.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now bringing immense prospects to Vietnamese enterprises to conduct digital transformation and smart production. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired a ceremony in Hanoi on January 6 to launch Vietnam’s 2020 ASEAN Chairmanship, with about 300 distinguished guests taking part.

The trade of unborn babies to China and illegal surrogacy have become a serious problem in northern mountainous provinces.

A booking spurt on Hostelworld places mountainous province Ha Giang in northern Vietnam among the 20 hottest travel destinations next year.

Vietnam's pharmaceutical market has a lot of potential coming from the demographics, rising income and priority policies of the government.

While developed countries are cutting the number of coal-fired thermopower plants for fear about environment pollution, Vietnam is still building more plants.

South Korea’s New Southern Policy has brought changes in investment in Vietnam in 2019, facilitating a fourth investment wave across the country. 

Pfizer, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline are reported to plan increasing drug prices in the US in 2020, triggering public concerns over a similar hike in Vietnam.

When Pham Thi Hue finished her SEA Games’ 10,000m race in first place, she shared her joy with one man watching from the stands.

The digital transformation is being considered the key to unlock sustainable development of livestock for the country, with large-scale breeding farms investing more in digital farming.

HCM City’s District 5 will organise Cho Lon Kitchen food fair at Van Lang Park in District 5 from January 11-12.

The atmosphere of the traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year will be recreated at the Vietnamese Tet Programme 2020 to be held at the Thang Long imperial citadel in Hanoi from January 17 to February 2.