Interest in traveling to Vietnam has skyrocketed, with international search volumes for accommodations and destinations increasing by up to 45% in early 2025.

To fast-track 5G deployment, Vietnam has introduced a subsidy covering 15% of telecom companies' equipment costs. The policy, designed to encourage rapid investment, aims to establish 20,000 base stations by the end of 2025.

The HCM City Book Street Company will launch more events and activities to introduce Vietnamese culture and traditional performing arts to local and foreign visitors in 2025.

To ensure smooth traffic flow, Ho Chi Minh City is restricting large trucks and container vehicles from entering central areas between February 20 and February 23.

A five-channel video and sound installation has opened for free at Manzi Exhibition Space in Hanoi.

Cellist Bùi Hà Miên has released a music video Quảng Bình Quê Ta Ơi (Quảng Bình, Our Homeland), featuring her playing while in the Sơn Đoòng Cave in the central province of Quảng Bình.

Initially shocked by a black-colored street food in Hanoi, an American tourist was pleasantly surprised by its taste and expressed eagerness to try it again.

While the film ’Quỷ Cẩu’ garnered five minutes of applause at its world premiere at the recent Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival in France, ’Linh Miêu’ was selected to open the Jagran International Film Festival in India.

Hanoi FC officially appointed coach Teguramori on Monday. The selection of a Japanese coach reflects the club leaders’ desire to adopt a modern playing style, similar to the successful tenure of former coach Daiki Iwamasa.

Over the next six months, dangerous weather events such as thunderstorms, whirlwinds, lightning, hail and strong gusty winds are expected to take place across the country.

Nguyễn Lee Hiếu has surpassed thousands of international contestants to win first prize at the 19th ZhongSin International Music Competition held in Singapore.

An exhibition of ceramics by 50 artists from the Art Ceramics Club and Saigon Fine Arts Ceramics Club are taking place at the Fine Arts Exhibition House on 16 Ngô Quyền Street in Hà Nội's Hoàn Kiếm District.

A former chief police in Phu Quoc City is accused of defrauding four individuals in a scheme involving the sale of public and protective forest land, embezzling nearly VNĐ66 billion (US$2.6 million) from them.

HCM City's education sector has proposed that kindergarten and high school students in the city be granted full tuition waivers starting next academic year.

Sweets are handed over to children in the highlands, while peach and kumquat trees are replanted to beautify village roads and streets.

Only after his father sent an additional VNĐ131 million ($5,127) to his purported captors was Q. released and returned to Vietnam.

Once the change happens, citizens will be able to submit applications for new or to renew driving licences at local police offices in communes, wards and townships.

A Vietnamese restaurant in the central coastal city of Nha Trang has been fined VNĐ96.5 million (US$3,780) for overcharging Chinese tourists during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

HCM City will offer comprehensive support for abused children and those with rape-caused pregnancies at three hospitals with the entire gamut of treatment, counselling and protection services.

The US remains Việt Nam’s largest export market, with an estimated trade value of US$10 billion in January.