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Traffic police in Lao Cai have deployed drones to monitor motorists leaving restaurants and bars, tightening drink-driving enforcement during the Lunar New Year holiday.

A new legal framework is set to reshape Hanoi’s growth, allowing special mechanisms to spur housing in satellite areas and better connect homes with transport, jobs and services.

Ministry of Home Affairs forecasts increased labour demand this year in several sectors, particularly manufacturing, food processing and transport equipment production.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam left Hanoi on Wednesday to attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace for Gaza in the US from February 18 to 20.

Vietnam recorded 46 traffic accidents nationwide on February 17, the first day of the Lunar New Year (Tet), leaving 24 people dead and 41 injured, according to the Traffic Police Department.

Hanoi will install an additional 5,000 artificial intelligence-powered cameras in the first half of 2026 to strengthen traffic monitoring and enforcement,.

Hanoi has provided multiple free parking sites during the Lunar New Year and spring festival season to ease congestion and support festive travel.

The usually frenetic streets of Ho Chi Minh City fell unusually quiet on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, as residents stepped out to enjoy a rare moment of calm.

Traffic police launched citywide alcohol checks from 10 am on the first day of the Lunar New Year to bolster road safety during the holiday.

Party General Secretary To Lam will visit the United States from February 18-20 to attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace for Gaza.

Thousands gathered at Ngoc Hoang Pagoda in HCM City on the first morning of the Lunar New Year, February 17, offering incense and prayers for peace and good fortune.

Police in Phong Nha Commune in the central province of Quang Tri have helped a foreign tourist recover a bag left behind on the SE23 train.

Hanoi's usually traffic-clogged streets were unusually quiet on the first morning of the Lunar New Year, with blaring horns replaced by a rare calm in the cool early-spring air.

A cold front is set to hit northern Vietnam before dawn on February 17, the first day of the Lunar New Year, spreading southwards and bringing cooler weather, with severe cold in mountainous areas.

State President Luong Cuong, on behalf of Party and State leaders, delivers the Lunar New Year message.

Fireworks lit up skies across Vietnam at midnight as the country ushered in the Lunar New Year, with millions celebrating in scenes of colour and jubilation.

People across Vietnam gathered in provincial and city centres on Monday night, eagerly counting down to the Lunar New Year in a festive atmosphere.

Vietnamese maritime rescue forces brought a Georgian crew member ashore for emergency treatment overnight after he fell critically ill on a tanker off the coast of Khanh Hoa Province.

PM Pham Minh Chinh has urged sanitation workers to take pride in their “silent” but vital role, while calling on the public to cooperate in keeping Hanoi clean in the run-up to the Lunar New Year.