Everyday fully-loaded motorbikes reach the most remote areas of Cư Prao Commune in Ma Đ’rắc District, Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk to distribute fresh food and essential items.

 The HCM City Real Estate Association (HoRea) has recommended that the People’s Committee be more selective about giving licences to high-rise buildings. 

 The central province of Quang Nam has introduced the first hi-tech shrimp farming projects in Thăng Bình District’s Coastal Bình Hải Commune on 6.5 hectares with a total investment of VNĐ33 billion (US$1.5 million).

 Farmers in the Mekong Delta have begun harvesting the winter–spring rice crop in areas where it was sowed early, and yields are high.

 Around 4.5 million Vietnamese people are living, working, and studying in over 100 countries and territories around the world, contributing $16 billion in remittances to the country last year. 

A reaction plan to the African swine fever (ASF) is being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development after pigs were found infected with the disease in neighbouring countries.

Measles has been reported in 43 out of 64 provinces and cities nationwide with 664 patients since early this month, particularly in the south, according to the Ministry of Health.

 The number of people admitted to hospital with dengue fever in HCM City has increased sharply so far this year though it is not the peak disease season, according to the city Preventive Medicine Centre.

Thousands of people have flocked to the northeastern province of Quang Ninh to join in the Yen Tu Spring Festival, which began in Uong Bi city on February 14 or the 10th day of the Lunar New Year.

Export activities recorded encouraging figures in January, and more growth is on the way, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien has recently signed a decision announcing 17 new national intangible cultural heritages. 

Crowds of local people, tourists flocked to the Da Nang Love Lock Bridge on Valentine’s Day (Feb.14, 2019) for sight-seeing and taking photo.

Vietnamese airlines are now able to fly to the US and codeshare with US carriers after the FAA declared that VN complies with international safety standards under the agency’s International Aviation Safety Assessment programme.

On February 17, 1979, China launched a large-scale attack on Vietnam’s territory along all the northern border line shared by the two countries from Phong Tho (Lai Chau province) to Mong Cai (Quang Ninh province).   

The central coastal region of Vietnam boasts huge tourism potential and efforts are underway to turn this sector into a driving force of local development.

Border guards in the central province of Quang Tri, in coordination with the security force of Savannakhet province of Laos, have arrested a Lao man for smuggling 94,000 meth pills. 

A seminar was held at the military school of the northernmost province of Ha Giang on February 15 to recall the war that defended the northern border 40 years ago.

Seed bombs, a new method applied at the Nui Chua National Park in Ninh Thuan province to regenerate forest flora, has brought encouraging results.

Minister of National Defence Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich inspected dioxin detoxification work at Bien Hoa airport in the southern province of Dong Nai on February 15.

The Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) has announced that it officially launched the first flight service linking Vinh city, in the central province of Nghe An, with the central city of Da Nang on February 15.