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 songwriting contest has been opened to all Vietnamese citizens to look for songs praising the time-honoured friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and Laos.

The State Bank of Vietnam recently held a ceremony to present a certificate of merit and commemorative medals to Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Vietnam leaders and managers to recognise its outstanding contribution to the banking cooperation between Vietnam and Germany in the past over 20 years.

The Vietnam’s hosting of the APEC Forum Year 2017 will open up great chances for localities to attract visitors and advertise their products to APEC partners and world leading businesses, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has stated while chairing the first press conference of Vietnam on the event.

The Presidential Office has unveiled three new laws, including the Law on Amendments and Supplements to Article 6 and Appendix 4 on the list of conditional business lines of the Investment Law, the Law on Property Auctions, and the Law on Belief and Religion.

All six Vietnamese students who participated in the 13th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO), held in Bali, Indonesia have won prizes.

The Hanoi Run for Children 2016 which was held in the Thong Nhat Park on December 11 raised nearly 1.3 billion VND (57,700USD) for the treatment of disadvantaged children with cancer and congenital heart diseases.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) supports establishing relations between Vietnamese and Mongolian trade union sectors and localities.

The fifth International Conference on Vietnamese Studies which will be held in Hanoi on December 15-16, aims to create an international academic forum to discuss and propose solutions to contemporary issues that Vietnam is experiencing.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held a conference on international cooperation in the promotion of sustainable farming in response to climate change was organised in Hanoi on December 6.

During the visit to the social housing project of Dang Xa in Hanoi`s Gia Lam district on December 6, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly appreciated the efforts of the Ministry of Construction, the municipal People`s Committee and the investor to create a social housing model with civilised living conditions and sufficient facilities.

Deputy PM Truong Hoa Binh has urged Tan Son Nhat international airport in HCM City to step up efforts to tackle airport overload, cyber-attacks and laser beam incidents to ensure the security of the southern region’s busiest airport.

During meeting with Vice State President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh in Hanoi on December 5, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi recognised Vietnam’s achievements in implementing the rights of children, citing the reduction in the rate of under-five-year-old child mortality over the past 10-15 years.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended at recent ceremony in Hanoi to praise the outstanding students who made high achievements at national, regional and international exams.

The cost reduction of the Build- Operate -Transfer toll stations this time is mainly at five important highways - highways No.1, No.5, No.51, No.1 from HCM City to Trung Luong and HCM National Highway through the Central Highland region, according to Transport Ministry.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended the seminar on improving cooperation between social organizations and partners in HIV/AIDS control held in Hanoi on December 1 on the occasion of the World AIDS Day.

Vietnam has huge potential for developing wind power but the country currently needs the big initial investment, technical complexity and quality technicians to take full of opportunities to boost the sector in the coming time.

Ministries must soon devise effective measures for solving some emerging socio-economic issues so that these problems won’t affect the execution of the development plan in the whole 2016 and in Q1 next year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the requirement at the Government’s monthly meeting in Hanoi on November 28.

People’s Artist Le Khanh, football player Hoang Vu Samson, and Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh will participate in Hanoi Run for Children 2016 that will take place in Hanoi`s Thong Nhat Park from 7:00 am on December 11.

Anna Shreyoegg, chief technical advisory of a project by the German Federal Enterprises for International Cooperation, better known as GIZ, said at the conference on November 23 that Vietnam has proved its strong commitment to combating climate change and has forged a leadership role for the region in the combat.

The Australian Government will support comprehensively Vietnam to implement a Gender Equality Strategy for the first time in 2016-2020 period, according to the Australian Embassy in Vietnam.