Pepper plants in the central Quảng Trị Province were destroyed following continuous rain and a simultaneous cold spell.

Vietnam News Agency photographers captured the festive atmosphere around Viet Nam to celebrate the New Year.

HCM City has targeted testing at least 17,045 additional people with tuberculosis (TB), including 7,840 new patients with pulmonary TB, next year, according to the city’s TB Prevention and Control Programme.

Cheap flight tickets for the Tết (Vietnamese New Year) Holiday are almost sold out, especially for the HCM City to Hà Nội route.

Hà Nội’s Transport Department has piloted taxi pick-up and drop-off stands on two streets for two months, but passengers and drivers remain unaware of them, Lao Động (Labour) newspaper reported.

Some 6.6 million people have received better medical treatment as a result of a project which rotates doctors from high-level hospitals to lower-level hospitals, implemented in Việt Nam since 2008.

Many households in HCM City's outlying district of Củ Chi have started growing rau móp (pimply lasia) since it brings a good income.

The HCM City People’s Committee plans to kick off a Tết Flower Festival  on February 10 in Tao Đàn Park in District 1 and will open 130 Tết flower markets around the city.

The development of green economic models on islands could help ensure sustainable residency and livelihoods, an expert has suggested.