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.

Spring festivals are being held throughout Vietnam and localities are taking all necessary precautions to ensure security and order.

According to Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in the past five years, the text-message campaign (via port 1400) to support the Agent Orange/dioxin-affected community has mobilised over 13 billion VND from 700,000 messages delivered.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan and head of the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission Vo Van Thuong have congratulated the health sector on the occasion of Vietnam Doctors’ Day (February 27).

According to the recent record signed between the transport ministry and the Korea International Co-operation Agency (KOICA), the feasibility study of a 550km-long railway line, linking Laos` Vientiane to Vung Ang in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh will be deployed in two years, from December 2015 to December 2017.

The helmet use rate of children in Vietnam increased significantly, creating positive changes in awareness and sense of observance of parents and students, said delegates at the year-end review of the National Child Helmet Action Plan in Hanoi on February 24.

Beautiful Japanese cherry trees were planted at the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in Hanoi on February 24.

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) said that over 2,500 billion VND has been disbursed to help people address the aftermath of the extensive severe cold and snow in the northern and north-central regions in early 2016.

Russian students participated in a contest in Moscow on February 22 on Vietnam, its people and culture.

Several new bus routes connecting downtown Hanoi with suburban districts will be put into operation between now and 2020, according to Nguyen Phi Thuong, head of the Hanoi Transportation Service JSC (Transerco).

Eleven teams from Vietnam’s top engineering and industrial universities and junior colleges will compete at the 2016 Shell Eco-marathon Asia (SEM), reported Lao Dong newspaper.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed the south-central region and Central Highlands to take drastic measures to prevent drought at a working session with local authorities in Ninh Thuan province on February 22.

Hanoi People`s Committee has approved the city`s overall plan to prevent and fight fire by 2025 with a view towards 2030.

Vietnam’s first Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Education Centre was inaugurated at a ceremony jointly held by Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) and Cuc Phuong National Park on February 20.

Vietnam’s labour exports dipped only marginally by 0.48% year-on-year to 8,627 workers for the month of January, reports the Overseas Labour Management Department (OLMD).

People’s Committee of the Ha Tinh central province and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) Central Committee held a ceremony to launch a 2016 Tree Planting Festival in memory of late President Ho Chi Minh on February 19 in Cam Linh commune, Cam Xuyen district.

This is one of the key contents of the programme recently approved by the Prime Minister to prevent children from having accidents in the 2016-2020 period.

Foreign employees in Vietnam with work permits or practice certificates or practice licences granted by competent Vietnamese agencies will be covered by compulsory social insurance as from January 1, 2018, according to the 2014 Law on Social Insurance.

English Champion 2016 will be the largest-scale contest that attracts the participation of 25,000 contestants across the country, almost doubling compared to the number of last year`s competition.

Expatriate experts gathered together with their counterparts and managers in the homeland at a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on February 17 to discuss their role in the country’s innovation.

At the first press conference of Hanoi Party Committee held on February 15, Chairman of the municipal People`s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said, the Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam has suggested to present to the city 200 cherry trees to celebrate a cherry blossom festival that is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in March 2016.