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.

About 35 million Vietnamese, roughly one-third of the population, have Facebook accounts, according to a recent report from the company.

The Vietnam National Youth Committee and Hanoi People’s Committee co-chaired a youth dialogue themed “18-year-old citizens and the National Assembly election" in Hanoi on March 29.

As many as 8,293 Vietnamese students are studying in the Republic of Korea (RoK), accounting for 7.8% of the total number of international students in the country, according to the RoK Justice Ministry.

According to the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour, in order to mark the 130th anniversary of International Labour Day (May 1), the May Day meeting is schedule to take place at the Friendship Palace in Hanoi along with an exhibition honouring outstanding workers.

Crippling drought and saline intrusion are forecasted to continue damaging the south-central, Central Highlands and southern regions in April due to the devastating El Nino phenomenon.

KTĐT - The Prime Minister (PM) also instructed the Finance Ministry to provide 1,500 tonnes of rice from the national reserve to the northern mountainous provinces of Lang Son and Dien Bien to support needy people in the period between crops in early 2016.

The Lao Party and State want to do the utmost to ease the impact of the prolonged droughts and salinity in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Lao Minister of Energy and Mines Khammany Inthirath told the Vietnam News Agency in an interview.

Microsoft recently revealed the winners of the E² Educator Exchange Challenge awards.

Cuba’s experiences with reform were highlighted at a seminar held by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and the Cuban Embassy in Vietnam on March 25 in Hanoi.

If the La Nina phenomenon that cools the ocean surface along the tropical Pacific coast of South America, comes right after the El Nino, an historic flood is predicted to hit Vietnam in June, according to Deputy Director of the National Centre of Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Le Thanh Hai.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to allocate 2,000 tonnes of rice to people, especially ethnic minority groups, in the four Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai, Dak Lak, Dak Nong and Kon Tum which have been hit hard by drought.

In response to “National Blood Donation Day” (April 7), the country targets to collect a minimum of 120,000 blood units, accounting for 10% of blood needed this year, from about 200,000 voluntary blood donors during April.

Vietnam has ranked fourth out of 149 countries assessed for how well they convert national wealth into well-being for the population, according to a recent analysis from The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA).

Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) held a ceremony in Hanoi on March 21 to mark the 85th anniversary of the union and the 20th anniversary of Outstanding Vietnamese Youth awards, and to announce the ten winners of the 2015 Outstanding Vietnamese Youth awards.

Hanoi`s Standing Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front recently issued a decision to support 19 billion VND to the Central Highlands, south central and Mekong Delta localities hardest hit by droughts and saline intrusion.

A signing ceremony of a project on increasing life skills and competence for Vietnamese youth was held in Hanoi on March 21.

A working session to evaluate the World Bank (WB)’s fact-finding trip on a substantial environmental project in central coastal cities opened in Ninh Thuan province on March 21.

The youngest Youth Ambassador of SOS Children’s Village, 11-year old Capri Everitt from Vancouver, Canada, raised her pure, innocent voice to sing the Vietnamese national anthem at SOS Children’s Village in Da Nang on March 17.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Indonesia Hoang Anh Tuan has highlighted tourism as a potential and mutually beneficial field for both Vietnam and Indonesia, especially given the establishment of the ASEAN Community in 2015.

People`s Committee Hanoi held a ceremony to launch the 18th National Week for Occupational Safety and Health – Fire and Explosion Prevention on March 19.