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.
The General Offensive and Uprising in the spring of 1968 gave the Vietnamese people valuable lessons, confirmed the creative leadership of the Party and President Hồ Chí Minh and its determination to defeat American invaders, liberated the South, and unified the country and the Party, the army and people.
Việt Nam experienced unprecedentedly severe natural disasters in 2017, resulting in 386 people dead and missing and some VNĐ60,000 billion (US$2.6 billion) worth of damages.
Information Technology applications in health exams and treatment have improved information flow and storage in the healthcare sector, a year-end review found yesterday.
The new Bến Thành bus terminal on Hàm Nghi Street in HCM City’s District 1 opened to the public on Thursday.
A 2.2km stretch of road in the capital city has become the most expensive one in the country so far, being built at a cost of VNĐ3.5 billion (US$152,00) per metre.
Heavy rains coinciding with the sowing season in the central province of Phú Yên caused the submerging of hectares of winter-spring rice over the past few days.
The Central Bus Terminal, the most modern bus infrastructure worth roughly VNĐ100 billion (US$4,400) in this central province, has failed to attract passengers after four months of operation.
Minister of Education Phùng Xuân Nhạ, said that it was high time pedagogy schools stop the oversupplying of teachers in many provinces and cities.
Beginning next year, districts will be responsible for managing parks and trees, and the HCM City People’s Committee will invite competitive bids from the districts to explain how they would maintain green spaces.