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.

Over 300 art works and 60 documentary films featuring the ASEAN Community are on display at an exhibition which opened in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 14.

Officers and soldiers in 51 army units in 10 provinces nationwide will cast their ballots for deputies to the 14th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils earlier than the Election Day slated for May 22, as approved by the National Election Council.

The total capital which was allocated from the budget and mobilised by the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) and its member organisations to support provinces hit hard by drought, saltwater intrusion and unusual mass fish deaths reached 75.932 billion VND.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony to inaugurate the upgrade of Cat Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hai Phong on May 12.

A memorial service was held at Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery in central Quang Tri province on May 12 for 37 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts whose remains had just been brought back to Vietnam from Laos.

Kumho Tire Co., Inc will continue to sponsor activities of the Association of Vietnamese People in the Republic of Korea (RoK) under an agreement signed between the two sides in Seoul on May 11.

The Overseas Labour Management Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said in the first four months of 2016, about 33,600 Vietnamese labourers worked abroad, accounting for 33.69% of the target for this year.

The grassroots health service in border areas and on islands will be reinforced strongly in the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at the fifth teleconference reviewing the national civil-military medical programme in 2005-2015 held in Hanoi on May 10.

A training workshop strengthening capacity of gender mainstreaming in financial policy making was opened in Hanoi on May 11.

MasterCard ranked Vietnam fifth in its Women’s Advancement Index for Asia-Pacific, with a score of 64.2/100.

Vietnam’s open-door policy and its achievements during the 30-year reform process were introduced to participants at an international dialogue held by the authority of France’s Reims city on May 9.

Hanoi People’s Committee will organise the 2016 Action Month for children, themed “For safe lives, preventing accidents and injuries for children”, from June 1-30.

Up to 5 million VND will be provided for fishing vessels in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue below 90CV which are forced to temporarily stop going out to sea, according to the Prime Minister`s recent decision.

According to a recent document, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment called on other ministries, state agencies, authorities of cities and provinces nationwide to participate in activities of the Action Month for the Environment in response to World Environment Day, June 5.

The Ministry of Education and Training said that the Vietnamese team won three silver, three bronze prizes and two honourable mentions at the 17th Asian Physics Olympiad held in Hong Kong, China from May 1-9.

The Japanese International School was inaugurated in Hanoi on May 7.

At the press conference on May 6 in HCM City with domestic and foreign reporters announcing outcomes of four-day working visit to Vietnam, UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson vowed to try his efforts to encourage more support for Vietnam to solve difficulties in climate change.

A photo exhibition has been opened in Havana, Cuba to mark the 41 st anniversary of Vietnam’s Southern Liberation and National Reunification Day (April 30) and the 62 nd anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7).

United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson made a fact-finding trip to the southern province of Ben Tre on May 5 to find out about the impacts of ongoing drought and saline intrusion.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Pham Hong Hai attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which is being held in Geneva, Switzerland from May 2-6.