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The Spring Book Street Festival opened on the evening of January 19 with the theme of "Ho Chi Minh City - Happy and prosperous” to welcome the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

Non Nuoc Cao Bang Global Geopark is an exceptional area in which it is possible to explore the history of the Earth for more than 500 million years. It’s also a land of tangible and intangible cultural heritage sites.

As many as 14 people were killed in traffic accidents on the first day of Tet Holiday according to the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security.

HCM City will ban vehicles from using city centre streets due to the various festivities, including firework displays.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has informed that the country will not import fossil fuels from 2045 as it will develop the potential of palm oil as an alternative fuel by then.

The Hanoi Federation of Labour held a programme at Thang Long Industrial Park on January 19 to take disadvantaged workers to their hometowns for the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta contribute over 50% of the country's rice production and 90% of rice exports. However, quality, efficiency, product competitiveness and income of rice farmers in the region remain low.

Nguyen Hue Flower Street in Ho Chi Minh City attracted a large number of visitors when it opened on Thursday evening.

Foreign investment inflows into Vietnam will likely reach US$36-38 billion in 2023, according to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Vietnam’s export of agro-forestry-aquatic products hit a record revenue of over 53.22 billion USD last year, up 9.3%, including nearly 11 billion USD from aquatic products.

The body of a 10-year-old boy who fell into a 35-metre-deep concrete pillar at a construction site in the southern province of Dong Thap three weeks ago was retrieved early on Friday.

Bamboo Airways’s flight numbered QH1413 took off from Noi Bai Airport and landed at Cam Ranh Airport on the morning of January 19, bringing with it 15 Chinese passengers to Khanh Hoa after a long period of hiatus caused

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion has seen a sharp rise in blood donations to meet demand during the Tet Lunar New Year holiday.

A family in the central province of Ha Tinh which has three ailing members has received VND139.5 million (USD6,000) in donations.

The northern region would see a new cold wave from January 24.

The trade turnover between Vietnam and the European Union reached 76.3 billion USD last year, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, according to the European-American Market Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has opened a path with floral arrangements and miniature scenes for the Tet Lunar New Year.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam, state, National Assembly, government, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front came to pay tribute and lay wreaths to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi to mark the Tet Lunar

As many as 450,000 migrant workers in the southern province of Binh Duong have been unable to return home for the Tet Lunar New Year holiday due to financial difficulties.