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Many people have installed tents on Hanoi streets to sell bonsai trees as the Lunar New Year nears.

Retail petrol prices have increased from Friday following the latest adjustment by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

The Israeli Embassy in Vietnam joined with Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 H’Hen Nie to debut a Room to Read library at an elementary school in Minh Son commune of Bac Me district in the northern province of Ha Giang.

Doctors at the HCM City-based Cho Ray hospital have successfully conducted a renal transplant with a kidney taken from a donor who has a different blood group.

An additional 15,935 Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Vietnam on Friday and Hanoi continued to record the highest number of patients with over 2,800 cases, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Health Ministry is seeking approval from the government to buy 21.9 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to inoculate children aged 5-11.

HCM City is welcoming more tourists as it has been reclassified as a low Covid-19 infection risk area.

The second One Stop Service Centre for survivors of gender-based violence has just been opened in Thanh Hoa Province.

A beach in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is facing the threat of pollution as erosion is revealing a large dumpsite.

Young Vietnamese girl Duong Nguyet Nghi won 53 international awards for her 3D animated short film titled “The Organized Life”, which was co-made by Nghi and her friend Patrick Yu Wang.

Many families in Hanoi are facing difficulties finding home guards for the coming Lunar New Year holiday despite offering high salaries.

A seminar was held in An Giang province on January 20 to promote trade and investment between the US and the Mekong Delta localities.

A former football coach who once worked for a top team in Scotland has been arrested in Vietnam in connection with historic child sex abuse offences.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs is seeking Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s approval for the grant of 9,877 tonnes of rice from the national reserve for people hard hit by Covid-19.

VinFuture Prize, an international award founded in Vietnam to honour scientific achievements, has given out 4.5 million USD worth of prizes to several global scientists.

Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang presented views on issues that have drawn concern of the press and the public at the ministry’s regular press conference in Hanoi on January 20.

In the event that sea levels rise by 1 metre, it will engulf 47.29% of the Mekong Delta area, approximately 17.15% of the area of Ho Chi Minh City, and 13.20% of the Red River Delta area, according to

Vietnam rejects China Daily's information that Vietnam is building an armed militia at sea, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said at a foreign ministry’s press briefing on January 20, while emphasizing that the information is incorrect and

HCM City police have deported 12 Chinese people who illegally entered Vietnam.