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.

A reading room inside the National Assembly (NA)’s library was inaugurated in Hanoi, on October 29.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and UNESCO launched the initiative “Gender Equality and Girls’ Education in Vietnam: Empowering girls and women towards a more equal society” in Hanoi on October 28.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to establish a pilot public administration centre in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Director of Hanoi Department of Construction Le Van Duc said at the press conference held on October 27 that the Red River water plant project is expected to start in the fourth quarter of this year and become operational in the first quarter of 2021.

Vietnam Development Partnership Forum 2015 will make a favourable chance to discuss on policies between the Vietnam Government, its development partners, the private sector, local and international civil society organisations, national research institutions.

To reach the goal of 85% of Hanoi`s population covered by health insurance by 2020, the city has taken a number of measures, focusing on raising public awareness, streamlining administrative procedures regarding the issuance of health insurance cards.

Twenty-nine outstanding young Vietnamese people and other ASEAN and Japanese youths will take part in the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Programme (SSEAYP) from October 27, starting in Tokyo, Japan, to share with each other their countries culture.

A ceremony, organised by Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio and the Institute of Community Health under the Ministry of Health, to hand over wheelchairs to Vietnamese Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO ) victims was held in the Ecopark township, Hung Yen province.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) signed a cooperation programme by 2018 at their talks in Hanoi on October 26.

Transport linkage has been identified as the key factor to further drive the Northwestern region’s social-economic development, according to delegates at a recent conference.

Deputy Director of Hanoi`s Transport Department Ha Huy Quang said at the recent meeting, the department plans to reduce the number of bus services during rush hours to solve traffic congestion.

The Vietnamese Embassy on October 24 joined the diplomatic corps in Singapore at a charity fair to raise fund for social activities in the host country.

Fishermen in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have rescued a 35kg green sea turtle that got lost in a shrimp pond and returned it into the sea.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on October 22 urged the Ministry of Education and Training to tailor its policies on autonomy for public universities to the needs of each institution.

Being free to reside, travel and enjoy city life in safety is a legitimate right of all people, especially women who have reason to worry about the possibility of sexual harassment or abuse, a policy and campaign manager at ActionAid Vietnam has said.

A Master’s Degree Training Programme between Vietnam and Belgium celebrated its 20-year implementation at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management under the Free University of Brussels (ULB) on October 21.

Hanoi begun the work on the expansion of the Bac Thang Long – Van Tri water plant in Dong Anh district on October 22.

Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) will support a project that helps turn the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho into a model urban city adaptive to climate change, Martin Shenton, a SECO representative, said on October 22.

The Youth Vocational Training project in Hanoi, which was launched on October 21, will create jobs and generate incomes for thousands of disadvantaged young people in the city during 2015-2018.

Progress in controlling the mortality rate in small children has brought Vietnam come close to achieving the related Millennium Development Goal 4 on reducing child mortality, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).