(VOVWORLD) - Nguyen Hue Flower Street in Ho Chi Minh City opened on Saturday as Tet (the Lunar New Year Festival) approaches.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Sunday offered incense in tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at House 67 in the Presidential Palace complex ahead of the Lunar New Year Festival (Tet), the biggest and longest festival in Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - A cremation ceremony for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh took place at Vinh Hang Cemetery Park in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam reported an additional 15,150 COVID-19 infections on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said on Friday six lab studies showed their experimental oral COVID-19 drug molnupiravir was active against the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will spend a "lot of time" discussing security in Europe and the set of demands Moscow has made of the West when they meet for talks next week, the Kremlin said on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of National Defence on Friday handed over the President’s decisions to seven officers who will be sent to the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), a mission established by the UN Security Council in 2011 for peacekeeping in Sudan.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong extended his best New Year wishes to leaders and former leaders of the Party, State, and Vietnam Fatherland Front, key officials of some centrally-run agencies and Hanoi, and compatriots, soldiers and overseas Vietnamese (OVs) at a get-together on Saturday, the 27th day of the last lunar month.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and the US signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Friday on addressing climate change and environmental pollution.

(VOVWORLD) - The positive relationship between Canada and Vietnam has grown strongly every year, Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Deborah Paul told the Vietnam News Agency in an interview prior to Tet, Vietnam’s lunar New Year Festival.