(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary To Lam visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to the Party Organisation, administration and residents of Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Dazzling fireworks lit up the skies across Vietnam at midnight on Tuesday, carrying hopes for a peaceful and prosperous new lunar year, the Year of the Snake.

(VOVWORLD) -The 2025 New Year Book Street Festival is being held on Le Loi Street in Ho Chi Minh City from January 27 to February 2, showcasing nearly 68,000 book titles.

(VOVWORLD) -Leaders from around the globe gathered on Monday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland, a symbol of the Jewish genocide during World War II.

(VOVWORLD) -The European Union renewed on Monday its wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over the conflict with Ukraine, after Hungary stopped holding up the move in return for a declaration on energy security.

(VOVWORLD) -The UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday appointed Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Vietnam’s Permanent Representative to the UN, and Ambassador Maurizio Massari, Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN, as co-facilitators to prepare for the UN High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in 2026.

(VOVWORLD) -Over 300,000 refugees are returning to the northern Gaza Strip after more than a year of fleeing the Israeli military offensive.

(VOVWORLD) -The program “Brilliant Thang Long 2025” to take place on New Year’s Eve to ring in the year of the Snake at My Dinh National Stadium, Hanoi, will not have the pyro drone performance as previously planned.

(VOVWORLD) -Nguyen Hue Flower Street for the Year of the Snake 2025 was officially opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday evening by the municipal People's Committee.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday evening offered incense to commemorate Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who died on July 19, 2024 aged 80, at the late leader's private residence in Hanoi. The visit was on the traditional Lunar New Year 2025 and anticipating the founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3).