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.

In the framework of the ongoing third Vietnam-China Youth Festival, a forum on youths’ role in environmental protection and sustainable development was held in Ha Long city in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 8.

The Prime Minister has issued a plan to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change with five key objectives.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ministries, sectors and localities to implement more drastic measures to strengthen the management in the remaining months of this year to realise socio-economic development targets in 2016.

The Government along with the Prime Minister, ministries and localities have proactively got engaged in the settlement of Formosa-caused maritime environmental incident in the four central provinces.

A bilingual book titled “Evidence of China-Vietnam friendship” made its first debut at a ceremony in Hanoi on October 29.

The Netherlands would give priority to promoting sustainability and inclusiveness in expanding trade and investment ties with Vietnam, Marten van den Berg, Vice Minister for Foreign Trade, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at the “Building Sustainable Business Models in Vietnam" seminar held in HCM City on October 25.

During a workshop for Vietnam’s global integration in Hanoi on October 24, the International Labour Organisation suggested the nation take comprehensive and continuous measures to improve labour productivity, social dialogue and working conditions.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said that the high-level dialogue between the National Steering Committee on Climate Change and development partners organised in Hanoi on October 25, is a good chance for policy-makers and domestic and foreign scientists to discuss urgent matters and seek measures to help Vietnam deal with climate change.

Vietnam wants the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) share climate change response solutions and provide technical and equipment support to assess more precisely climate change impacts, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the meeting with IPCC Chairman Hoesung Lee in Hanoi on October 24.

The National Statistical Survey Programme approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc includes three national survey censuses and 11 statistical surveys.

As of October 20, the Standing Board of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee received nearly 2 billion VND after three days of launching campaign supporting residents in the central region in overcoming the consequences of recent floods.

Vietnam’s development partners gathered at a meeting in Hanoi on October 20 to discuss measures to address the consequences of bombs and mines left over from war in the country.

The country’s macro economy was stabilised and major balances as well as social order and security were ensured in the past three quarters, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the opening of the second session of the 14th National Assembly on October 20.

The 2016 Long Bien Marathon is scheduled to take place in Hanoi on October 23 to raise funds for needy people in the capital’s Long Bien district.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, head of the National Steering Committee on Price Management, asked ministries and relevant agencies to keep the growth of consumer price index under five percent in the year-end months of this year.

The Prime Minister has issued a set of criteria for new-style rural communes for the 2016-2020 period, including 19 different fields with specific targets.

In response to the national movement to join hands supporting the poor, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee held a ceremony in Hanoi on October 17 to launch the “Month for the Poor”, which will run until November 18.

On October 16, a Prime Minister document was sent to the Northern central provinces to deal with severe floods and ask local and central agencies, and localities prepare the emergency response to the typhoon Sarika which entered the East Sea on October 16 as the seventh storm this year.

As many as 60 photos taken by journalist Nguyen My Tra during her journey to Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago are being put on show at an exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City from October 15-20.

Vietnam is applying a lot of measures to ensure food security when encountering with increasing climate change.