The Southeast Asia Gong Harmony Night 2025 took place in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong on December 20 evening, bringing together artisan troupes from Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and host Vietnam.
In the year’s final cold days, Hanoi is slipping into its festive glow. From churches and amusement venues to shopping malls and hotels, dazzling Christmas trees have appeared across the city, becoming attractions this Christmas season.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underscored that modern and comprehensive infrastructure is both an urgent need and a long-term strategic mission for Vietnam’s fast and sustainable development.
Amid the bustle of the coastal ward of Vung Tau in Ho Chi Minh City, a small group of artisans is quietly keeping the spirit of the sea alive through shell handicrafts, a trade that has existed for nearly four decades and was once a source of local pride.
Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating digital transformation in tourism to promote its culture, people, and unique culinary and urban experiences.
The festival functions as a space to bring together regional OCOP excellence, a forum connecting OCOP stakeholders with distributors, investors, experts and consumers, and a platform to spread pride in indigenous culture, local knowledge, and the aspiration for legitimate prosperity.
The Startup Festival 2025 marked the largest annual event summarising a year-long startup support programme.
The Party and State continue to define infrastructure development as one of the three strategic breakthroughs, with priority given to building comprehensive and modern infrastructure, particularly transport facilities, technological infrastructure, and green – digital transition infrastructure, to help realise the national target of double-digit growth, the PM said.
Several significant new points in the draft documents of the 14th National Party Congress have drawn special attention from officials, party members, experts, and the public.
In the final month of 2025, Vietnam’s economy continues to show positive momentum, as sectors and localities step up efforts to meet annual targets.
Lung Cu border commune in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang captivates visitors with its majestic natural landscapes, the rich cultural depth of highland ethnic communities, and the peaceful rhythm of life.
The impressive string of achievements across multiple SEA Games not only affirms her elite athletic caliber but has also made Nguyen Thi Oanh a symbol of perseverance, dedication, and pride for Vietnamese sport.
Stories about the nearly two-century journey of the Vietnamese coffee, from the earliest plantations to the iconic Vietnamese phin-brewing culture, will be vividly re-enacted at the upcoming global coffee heritage festival in Da Lat city, Central Highland province of Lam Dong.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has reaffirmed Vietnam’s approach of placing people at the centre of digital economy and society development.
Authorities in the northern province of Ninh Binh are intensifying communication and management measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, aiming to help remove the European Commission’s yellow card as soon as possible.
Vietnam welcomed more than 19 million international visitors in the first 11 months of 2025, up 20.9% year-on-year, and surpassing its pre-pandemic peak of more than 18 million arrivals, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.
From a small city of just 152 square kilometres with 430,000 residents, Hanoi has grown into the country’s largest economic and technology hub, maintaining growth rates consistently above the national average.
In recent days, thousands of residents and visitors have flocked to Ha Phat Church in the southern province of Dong Nai to admire a 35-metre-tall Christmas tree crafted from 3,000 traditional Vietnamese conical hats. Striking in both scale and creativity, the unique structure celebrates cultural heritage and has become a major attraction ahead of the Christmas season.
After nearly three decades of development, the Internet has become an integral part of Vietnam’s socio-economic life.
In 2025, Viet Nam fielded seven teams at international and regional Olympiad competitions, with 37 students competing and all winning medals, including 13 golds, 16 silvers and eight bronzes—an increase of one gold and one silver compared with 2024.
On December 19, the Hanoi People’s Committee held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Tien Duong 1 Social Housing Project in Phuc Thinh commune. The event formed part of a nationwide series of ground-breakings, inaugurations and technical openings of 234 projects and works to welcome the 14th National Party Congress.
Addressing a national conference to review the information, education and mass mobilisation work in 2025 and roll out tasks for 2026 held by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation in Hanoi on December 19, Party General Secretary To Lam underscored the importance of forming a contingent of professional and dedicated staff for the information, education and mass mobilisation work.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on December 19 attended a ceremony to simultaneously inaugurate, commence, or technically open 234 key projects and works across the country.
On the morning of December 19, three flights operated by Vietnam’s national carrier Vietnam Airlines, Bamboo Airways and Vietjet Air landed at Long Thanh Airport.
On December 18 evening, after Vietnam’s U22 team staged a dramatic 3-2 comeback against host Thailand to claim the gold medal in the men’s football event at the 33rd SEA Games, huge crowds across the country flooded the streets, waving flags, cheering, and celebrating the victory.
Over 12 days and nights, from December 18 to 30, 1972, the US Air Force launched an unprecedented bombing campaign in Indochina, in an attempt to “throw North Vietnam back to the stone age”. With courage, determination, ingenuity and close coordination, the armed forces and people of the North shot down 81 aircraft, including 34 B-52 bombers. The decisive victory over Hanoi shattered the peak of US military escalation and led to the signing of the Paris Agreement, ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam and Indochina.
In the first 11 months of this year, eight export items each posted turnover of more than 10 billion USD, accounting for 70.3% of the country’s total export value. Electronics, computers and components led the list with 96.9 billion USD, followed by machinery and equipment at nearly 53.4 billion USD, and mobile phones and components at over 52.6 billion USD.
The atmosphere following Vietnam U22’s dramatic 3–2 victory over Thailand U22 in the men’s football final at the 33rd SEA Games was truly special and unforgettable.
