As a tradition, national and local leaders would visit people on duty during Tết and wish them a happy new year.

Tết is the time for a family union and good health, but not so for Cường and many others like him who are confined to hospital beds because of various ailments.

Extreme weather conditions resulting in a complex tide phenomenon, landslides and sea erosion are threatening coastal areas in central Bình Thuận Province, authority officials and local people have said.

Police in the northern province of Nam Định announced on Wednesday they have arrested two suspected drug dealers and seized 45kg of synthetic drugs and 30 heroin packs.

The jail terms of 621 prisoners in the southern province of Tây Ninh have been shortened on the occasion of Tết (Lunar New Year), according to the provincial People’s Court. 

A huge flyover that spans the major, congested Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm-Lê Hồng Phong intersection in the northern city of Hải Phòng opened to the public on Wednesday.

Việt Nam News photographer Đoàn Tùng walks around the city to get the shoots of people getting home from Hà Nội.

Saltwater has entered 35 kilometres up the Tiền River, one of the tributaries of the Mekong, in Tiền Giang Province, a local irrigation official said.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu have had bumper harvests of paddy rice and shrimp with higher profits and yields than in previous years.