Thanks to the efforts of local authorities, environmental businesses, and people, Hanoi has gained a cleaner, healthier environment in the past two months.

New Zealand is increasing scholarships for Vietnamese students at three levels of education.

Sandbox is one of the tools that will foster startups' development, experts say.

Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued Announcement 484/TB-UBND, stating instruction of Chairman Hanoi People’s Committee and Head of Steering Committee for Applying Information Technology at the meeting on smart traffic.

The Hanoi Department of Information and Communication has recently organized an awarding ceremony for the contest of “Hanoi - A Green, Clean and Beautiful Capital City” in 2016. The event drew the participation of Vice Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Ngo Van Quy.

The Hanoi People’s Committee, BRG Group and Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation signed a cooperation agreement on developing Nhat Tan-Noi Bai urban project with total investment of more than 4 billion USD, aiming to build the most modern smart city of Southeast Asia in the north of Hanoi.

On Saturday (June 3), temperature in Hanoi hit a record high of more than 40 degrees Celsius (around 104 degrees Fahrenheit).

At a working session with Queen of the Netherland Maxima Zorreguieta Cerruti in Hanoi on June 1, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung made the statement that a national strategy on an inclusive financial system is needed to promote socio-economic sustainable development in Vietnam.

Hanoi People’s Committee has recently issued Official Letter 4633/VP-TKBT, urging city’s departments, agencies, sectors, People’s Committees of districts, suburban districts and towns to report performance in May and key tasks for June of 2017.

Chairman of Hanoi’s People Committee Nguyen Duc Chung had a meeting with newly appointed ambassadors and heads of Vietnamese foreign missions on May 30, in Hanoi.

The Hanoi People’s Committee has just granted the Decision No. 2913/QD-UBND on approving the project “Promoting Hanoi’s export in the integration period up to 2020 with an orientation to 2025”.

The Ministry of Health has recently organized a meeting to respond to the World No Tobacco Day (May 31) under the theme "Tobacco – a threat to development" and launch the National non-smoking week from May 25-31.

That`s comment of Korean President`s special envoy during the meeting with Chairman of Hanoi`s People Committee.

The Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has just granted the Official Letter No. 1104/SNN-QLCL on recommending People’s Committees of districts, towns and subordinate units to strengthen building, development of safe food supply chains in the area.

According to Official Letter 4370/VP-KT, Office of Hanoi People’s Committee asks relevant agencies and sectors to implement decision on approving Project on enhancing capacity to manage protected area system to 2025, vision to 2030.

According to Document 2403/UBND-KT, Hanoi People’s Committee requested city’s agencies, departments and sectors to report implementation of socio-economic development plan in the first six months of 2017.

Hanoi’s leader has promised to solve all issues in the daily lives of all workers in the city soon, including shortages of housing, cultural activities, kindergartens and medical centres at industrial zones.

The 23rd Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT 23) of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum officially opened at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on May 20 in the presence of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Measures to mitigate impacts of natural disasters and climate change on children were discussed at a conference jointly held by the Central Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Hanoi on May 18.

Officials from Hanoi Fatherland Front, led by its President Vu Hong Khanh, have studied experience in rallying the mass and raising fund in Switzerland.

Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai and Secretary of the Lao Cai Province Party Committee Nguyen Van Vinh co-presided over a recent meeting, aiming to review coordination between two localities in the 2011-2016 period and promote comprehensive cooperation in the future.

The Hanoi Center of Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion (HPA) has recently organized a workshop to update information on the Czech market to help Vietnamese enterprises expand their market in the Czech Republic.

Party, State and Hanoi leaders paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on May 18 on the occasion of the late leader’s 127th birth anniversary (May 19, 1890).