Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam, one of Hanoi's most important cultural landmarks, attracts thousands of visitors each Tet.

Vietnam has made remarkable strides in developing a comprehensive, life-cycle, and gender-transformative social protection system.

Innovation in garbage collection vehicles is an important step in ensuring environmental sanitation, contributing to building a civilized, clean and beautiful urban area in a sustainable direction.

A joint venture in Vietnam has been allowed to offer double-decker buses and airport transport services in seven cities and provinces whose tourism sectors are thriving.

The capital city is aiming to have an additional 22 communes and two districts recognised as new-style rural areas in 2017, according to the municipal Party Committee’s steering board for agricultural development and new countryside building.

Vocational schools should focus on improving training quality and education establishments need to establish the close cooperarion with businesses to reach substantive changes, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a conference held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in HCM City on January 16.

Vietnam`s Ministry of Public Security`s General Department of Logistics-Engineering held here Friday a ceremony to launch preparations for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017.

Interdisciplinary inspection teams, in coordination with local authorities, will take samples of food at food businesses operating at festivals for tests in February, according to Diretor of Hanoi’s Department of Health Nguyen Khac Hien.

The Hanoi city will strive for supporting 10,230 families rise out of poverty in 2017, representing a 0.6 percent reduction in household poverty rate compared to the previous year.

The electronic system will also make insurance payments faster and more transparent. Vietnam plans to issue electronic health security cards to its citizens verifying their right to medical services, the Government Office said.

President Tran Dai Quang attended the annual Tich Dien (ploughing) festival in Doi Son commune, the Red River Delta province of Ha Nam on February 3.

While speaking at the launch of a tree planting festival held in Cam Pha city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, on February 2, Pesident Tran Dai Quang called on people to plant trees according to their conditions.

Vietnam aims to create more than 1.6 million new jobs for laborers, including 105,000 people sent to work abroad in 2017, according to Vietnamese Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Dao Ngoc Dung.

The northern province of Ninh Binh should push its tourism sector to make breakthroughs, with the aim of turning into a spearhead economic sector, President Tran Dai Quang stressed at a working session with the province’s leaders on the afternoon of January 30.

On special occasions like ancestors’ death anniversaries or the Lunar New Year, special rites are performed to communicate with the dead.The rites consist of making offerings of fruits, lighting the candles; and burning incense before praying in front of the altar.

Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Vu Duc Dam paid a visit to the French physicist Pierre Darriulat, writer Ma Van Khang, actor Thanh Loan and choreographer Chu Thuy Quynh on January 26 on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).

A Hanoi delegation led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung paid visits to former Party, State and National Assembly leaders on the occasion of the 2017 Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 23.

Vietnam`s National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) planned to put into operation 63 projects worth over 21.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (934.43 million U.S. dollars) in 2017.

Party and State officials and local authorities paid visits to units and localities ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 21-22.

Vietnamese diplomatic agencies in the US, South Africa and western provinces of Canada have organied get-togethers for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The Hanoi youth union held a ceremony on January 20 to honour 10 outstanding youths in 2016 for their significant contributions in various fields.

Hanoi is planning to offer 120 online public services in the first quarter of 2017, Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communication Phan Lan Tu announced at the conference on January 19.

Plenty of art and cultural offers for you to enjoy the best of Rooster’s Year in Vietnam.