At its “rising” wishes festival held in HCM City last week, Unilever Vietnam’s OMO brand called on the community to join hands to turn more than 500,000 wishes for Peace - Prosperity - Health on the occasion of Tết (Lunar New Year) into practical action to bring positive changes to families, society and the community.

The current extreme cold weather brought snowfall in high mountainous areas while hoarfrost was reported in several communes in the high mountainous province of Yên Bái’s Trạm Tấu District.

Promoting patriotic traditions and positive human values, Việt Nam Buddhism has made many contributions to society in different fields, Nguyễn Phúc Nguyên, head of the Department of Buddhist Affairs – Government Committee for Religious Affairs, said at a conference held on January 10.

The Hải Vân Tunnel 2, the longest road tunnel in Southeast Asia which connects the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế and Đà Nẵng City, opened to traffic yesterday four years after construction began.

Tân Sơn Nhất and Nội Bài are the two largest and most important airports of Việt Nam. They have been overloaded for many years causing visible cracks, deformation and subsidence of the asphalt surfaces, and only last year, with the pandemic putting a halt to most international flights did the authorities decide to take advantage of the downtime to do the repairs and upgrades.

Construction of the expansion of the Hòa Bình hydropower plant began in the northern mountainous province of Hòa Bình yesterday with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc attending the ground-breaking ceremony. 

Twelve months is the minimum time that policy makers need to study and come up with regulations for the use of new-generation cigarettes, experts have suggested.

HCM City has achieved its “dual goal” of containing the Covid-19 pandemic and reviving the economy, the chairman of its People’s Committee, told a meeting on Saturday (Jan 9).