(VOVWORLD) - Employees will have a four-day break for the New Year Holiday 2019. In recent years, the solar New Year has enthusiastically been welcomed.

(VOVWORLD) - Christmas is just around the corner and a festive spirit fills the air. Streets, parks, recreation centers and shopping malls have been beautifully decorated with Christmas trees and figures of Santa Claus, and are getting more crowded with people. Everything looks ready for Christmas.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 3,000 websites and enterprises participated in the online shopping day called Online Friday which took place for 24 hours on Friday, December 7. This year’s event, the fifth of its kind, saw strong development of the e-commerce market and digital economy.

(VOVWORLD) - Rough black coals are turned into beautiful sculptural pieces by skillful carvers. Coal sculpture done by hands prevails only in Quang Ninh province, which has been dubbed Vietnam’s coal mine.

(VOVWORLD) - Cycling has become a hobby of Hanoi dwellers in recent years. The beautiful streets around Sword Lake, West Lake, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, and Unification Park are packed with cyclists during the weekend.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese women constitute are in the majority of the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic. Despite living far from their homeland and facing numerous difficulties, they have tried hard to stablize their lives in a foreign country.

(VOVWORLD) - Young couple Son Sa The and Lam Phien of Soc Trang province have been well known among those interested in the Khmer arts of mural paintings and carving. The couple has created hundreds of beautiful mural paintings on Khmer pagodas and traditional Ngo racing boats.

(VOVWORLD) - Every Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday, the Autumn charity group and their friends cook porridge for poor patients at 6 hospitals in Hanoi. The free meals show their compassion for poor people.

(VOVWORLD) - A total of 15 winners of the 2018 Vietnam Women’s Awards and 20 best start-up projects founded by women were honoured at a recent ceremony held in Hanoi by the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU).

(VOVWORLD) - The ongoing 5th International Puppetry Festival has puppeteers from Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, Belgium, France, Brazil and Vietnam. They are wowing the audience with water puppet, shadow puppet, rod puppet, hand puppet, and mask puppet performance in Hanoi this week.