A Lunar New Year feast is often a carefully prepared and extravagant event held to hope for a prosperous year.

Something practical has to be done, and done immediately, to prevent any violence from being inflicted on our children before it is too late.

It was raining heavily as Nguyễn Tấn Trường, an 11-year-old fourth grader at the Chu Văn An Primary School in Đồng Nai Province, walked home.

Khuất Việt Hùng, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of Traffic Safety, has been cycling to work for the past seven years. As someone who deals with the country’s traffic problems, he feels the need to set an example through his modest efforts to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution in Hà Nội.

Phạm Mạnh Duy, 35, lives in Hà Nội’s Nam Từ Liêm District, has not thought about buying health insurance before.

In the past two decades, labour productivity in Việt Nam grew at 4.3 per cent on average, the highest increase among ASEAN countries, according to the ILO. However, in comparison with ASEAN states, Việt Nam’s aggregate labour productivity is still near the bottom.

Posting photos and videos of children online may seem to be an innocuous pastime for many, but little do they realise the perils such digital footprints could cause for their children.

The start-up frenzy started in Việt Nam around two years ago when the Government began calling for more investment in the start-up community and demonstrated their political will by a series of pragmatic actions. The biggest move was the approval of the scheme titled “Supporting the National Innovation Startup Ecosystem by 2025”, else known as the Project 844, last year of which some estimated of VNĐ2 trillion (US$88.8 million) would be poured into around 2,000 high-tech start-ups.

Doctors and other medical staff have to work very hard, but receive very low salaries and benefits.