Nearly 500, or 10.1 percent, of the over 4,780 flights operating during the six-day Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays were delayed, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has said.

President Tran Dai Quang attended the annual Tich Dien (ploughing) festival in Doi Son commune, Ha Nam on February 3, which praises for a bumper rice harvest in 2017 – the Year of the Rooster.

 The Vietnam – US Society (VUS) under the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations held a meeting with a visiting delegation of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) in Hanoi on February 3.

 President Tran Dai Quang has urged the education sector to focus on developing high quality human resources and training “global citizens” in the wake of the fourth industrial revolution.

 A ceremony took place in Tay Ho district, Hanoi, on February 4 to kick off the capital’s greening-up campaign in honour of the late President Ho Chi Minh.

Vietnam will continue boosting ties with the US and further deepening bilateral comprehensive partnership, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told former US Senator James Webb.

 The Government Inspectorate will conduct a series of crucial inspections this year, said Deputy Chief of the Government Inspectorate Ngo Van Khanh.

The Government will continue efforts to complete institutions in 2017 to facilitate activities of citizens and businesses, Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung said at a press conference in Hanoi on February 3.

 The US’s Maryland state and Vietnamese localities have good potential to expand cooperation, said Maryland Lieutenant Governor Boyd Rutherford.

 India greatly values its relations with Vietnam, Secretary (East) of the Ministry of External Affairs of India Preeti Saran has said in an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the relations between the two countries.

 While not totally unexpected, the closure of Parkson Viet Tower has nonetheless made many wonder exactly how it came to pass.

 Nuclear medicine, the branch of medicine that involves the administration of radioactive substances in order to diagnose and treat disease, is really incredible breakthrough in treating lung cancer.

VietNamNet Bridge - Beer companies have been prospering in Vietnam, a large market with 90 million people and consumption of 3.8 billion liters of beer in 2016.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Industry and Trade (MoIT) Tran Tuan Anh said the ministry planned to establish a trade defence department to safeguard the interests of businesses in the context of global integration.

 One of many new agriculture startups has proven a winner for a group of young entrepreneurs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 140ha forest planted in the 18th century has sheltered and nurtured generations of Cam Thanh Commune residents through wars and natural disasters like storms and floods.

 At the age of over 80, Prof. Dr Dang Luong Mo is still lucid and nimble, and always has desired to create more and more properties and wealth for the country which has made everyone to be proud of him.

 The Vietnamese government will invest in several higher education facilities amongst 23 nationwide which were selected to develop into key universities, making them become excellent universities.

PhD Nguyen Nguyen Cuong, director of the Centre for Education, Communication and Environment, ... speaks to Science and Life newspaper about Ha Noi’s need for a tree planting scheme along its main thoroughfares.

 The possible end of the TPP may not be as bad for Vietnam’s textile and garment sector as it first appears.