Taking the water from the Red River and the West Lake to clean To Lich River is just one piece of the puzzle. Drastic actions are needed to keep the environment clean and green.

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.

The amount of 130 billion VND will be used to support families and repair essential infrastructures in ten provinces affected by storms and floods in September and October 2015.

According to the plan recently announced, the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines will increase to 800 flights on some domestic and international routes to meet the rising demand during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

An international scientific symposium on the worship of Mother Goddess is taking place in the Red Delta River province of Nam Dinh from January 5-6.

President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) held talks with President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Ged Kearney in Hanoi on January 4.

The Communist Review, Ministry of Science and Technology and Vietnam United Youth League jointly held a ceremony to award the “Initiatives for the Community 2015” contest in Hanoi-based Vietnam National University.

Vietnamese expatriate communities worldwide have contributed significantly to socio-economic development back home in recent years.

The expressway, which was built under the BOT (build-operate-transfer) model, has a length of about 45,8km with the total investment of more than 4,213 billion VND.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany Doan Xuan Hung has expressed his wish that the overseas Vietnamese community in the country will always stay together to contribute more to the Vietnam-Germany ties.

On the occasion to welcome the Lunar New Year, the annual Homeland Spring programme will be organised in Hanoi on January 31 with various cultural activities for overseas Vietnamese (OVs).

Many entertaining activities will be held at different places for people in the HCM City to have a joyful night welcoming the turn of the year.

The Law on Identification will go into effection from January 1, 2016. Accordingly, sixteen cities and provinces across the country will start issuing new Identification (ID) cards from January 1, 2016.

Press agencies and journalists nationwide received compliments on their significant contributions to the country’s achievements in recent years at the National Press Conference 2015 held in Hanoi on December 30.

Deputy Defence Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh described Vietnam`s engagement in UN peace-keeping operations as the goal of the Vietnamese Party and State aiming to promote the country’s foreign policy of multilateralisation and diversification of relations.

Here are some major policies related to foreigners and overseas Vietnamese that have been introduced by the Vietnamese government this year.

The enhanced practice of social responsibility will help improve the competitiveness, prestige and brand of the fisheries industry, which is now a hard currency earner of Vietnam.

An ceremony was organised at the Friendship Labour Culture Palace in Hanoi on December 27 to honour 49 outstanding employers selected from more than 1,000 employers competing for the "Enterprise for workers" award in 2015.

A ceremony was held in Thulakhom district, Vientiane province, Laos on December 26 for the handover of an orthopedic and rehabilitation facility built with Vietnamese non-refundable aid to Laos.

As many as 40 surveillance cameras will be installed at bus stations to assist authorities with traffic management, said a Hanoi Police official.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung agreed to authorize the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs submitting a plan to present Lunar New Year gifts to people who made their contributions to the national revolution to President Truong Tan Sang for his approval.

Impacts of the El Nino phenomenon do not shrivel Vietnam’s this year rice production which is estimated at about 45.2 million tonnes, 230,000 tonnes higher than the yearly target.