The goal of becoming a high-income country by 2045 can be attained only by investing heavily in science and technology, and innovation, experts say.

"Thank heaven we are here today/To see the sun through parting fog and clouds" are two sentences from “Truyen Kieu” (The Tale of Kieu) quoted by then US Vice President Joe Biden,

Daily at the cock's crow, when everyone is still snuggled up in their cozy beds, a man is busy using well-worn wooden moulds and clay to make traditional Kitchen God statues.

Domestic leather and footwear firms have no choice but to convert their production activities as difficulties are expected to linger through this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have said.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has ordered the northern province of Hai Duong considering implementing the Prime Minister’s Decree 16/CT-TTg on a wider scale to avoid getting behind developments of the pandemic.

Building urban infrastructure towards green growth is a necessary goal in the urbanization process, in order to adapt to climate change.

Transport projects are expected to improve overall accessibility and reduce transportation costs, in turn increase economic productivity and development.

The national high-tech development program focuses primarily on assisting local enterprises to master high technologies.

Most of the Covid-19 patients detected at HCMC-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport are asymptomatic while many others have tested negative for Covid-19 after a short time of treatment.

People's Artist Hoang Dung passed away on Valentine's Day at Hanoi's National Institute for Haematology and Blood Transfusion aged 65.

Despite facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, seafood exports last year were estimated at US$8.58 billion, the same as in 2019.

Vietnam recorded one imported COVID-19 case on February 15 morning, raising the total count in the country to 2,229, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

An exhibition featuring large-sized paintings on Vietnam’s landscapes, people and culture opened on February 12 in a pedestrian zone in Budapest, Hungary.

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For the last 50 years, Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, 69, in Thanh Khe district in Da Nang City has been traveling to many areas to collect and exchange postage stamps about 12 zodiac animals.

History is stamped with special landmarks. For Vietnamese diplomacy, 2020 was one of the most memorable milestones. 

Apart from challenges, many opportunities will be offered to the Vietnamese economy in 2021, experts have said.

The San Diu ethnic minority group, who live in northern mountainous areas with a population of nearly 147,000, celebrate quite a lot of festivals the most important of which is Tet, the lunar New Year festival.

'Buffalo' represents hard work, persistence and stability in the Vietnamese people's conception, and these characteristics are considered to apply to people born in the Year of the Buffalo [according to eastern zodiac].

As many as 1,132 wild animals were successfully rescued in Vietnam last year, according to the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV).