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.

Vietnam needs over one thousand trillion VND between now and 2020 for transport infrastructure, one of the three strategic breakthroughs on the way to becoming a modern industrialised nation, Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Ngoc Dong told a seminar in Hanoi on July 8.

Ho Chi Minh City was ranked sixth among the most dynamic cities in the world, according to the recent 2015 City Momentum Index of the real estate services and investment management firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

In the morning of July 6, the temperature in the town of Sa Pa in Lao Cai province suddenly fell to 12.6 degrees Celsius. It has been the ever-lowest temperature during summer, according to the meteorological experts.

The Vietnam-Indonesia Friendship Association (VIFA) held its third congress on July 6 in Hanoi, electing Nguyen Dang Tien, General Director of Radio The Voice of Vietnam as the Chairman for the 2015-20 tenure.

Regulations on higher retirement age for officials and civil servants; management of paddy land; derivative securities; and allowances for workers in the art performance sector are among new policies which will come into effect from July.

According to the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam, the WB’s Board of Directors have approved two credit packages worth a combined 315 million USD to assist Vietnam’s agricultural restructuring and general education reform.

Vietnam and Germany on July 2 signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) on Vietnamese citizens working in Germany as caregivers.

Disaster preparedness needed co-operation between government, businesses and humanitarian organisations, according to a forum held in Hanoi on July 2 by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Asia and the Prudence Foundation.

On July 1, more than 1 million students across the country officially sat for the 2015 national high school exams. In the morning, students are tested in mathematics and they take test in foreign language in the afternoon.

Hanoi has urged relevant agencies to design plans on storm and flood control, mitigating the impacts of climate change, said an official.

The World Bank has approved an additional aid of US$45 million for Livestock Competitiveness and Food Safety Project for Viet Nam.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi to encourage sharing family-related duties equally between men and women on the occasion of the 2015 Vietnamese Family Day on June 28.

Vietnam has reaped remarkable achievements in caring for children, according a recently released report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

KTĐT - The Vietnam Road Department has approved a project to repair and upgrade bridges on national highways across the country.

The Party Central Committee’s Economics Commission in coordination with the National Assembly Committee for Economic Affairs, the World Bank in Vietnam and the National Economics University organised a "Completing indicators system for socio-economic development" workshop in Hanoi on June 23.

The Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved adjustments to the general plan through 2030 for the development of Phu Quoc island district in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended the meeting in response to the 2015 Action Month on Drug Prevention and Control, held in the northern Vinh Phuc province on June 19.

The Overseas Workers Management Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said that Taiwan has decided to allow Vietnamese domestic helpers and fishing crews enter and work from July.

KTĐT - As reported by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), in the first two quarters of this year, as many as 784,000 labourers were provided with jobs, up 3.4% in the comparison to the same period last year.

Bulk SMS will soon become a thing of the past as the Department of Information Security has decided to tighten the noose on mass SMS campaigners.