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.

Making his speech at the education conference in Hue city on March 30, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam stressed the important role of education and training reform in determining the future of each nation, particularly in the context of the fourth industrial revolutionary and the strengthened trend of globalization.

Vietnam will host the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Conference on Innovative Education and Human Resources Building from March 30-31 in Hue city, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Multilateral Economic Department.

Vietnamese youths in Russia celebrated the 86th founding anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (March 26, 1931) at the Hanoi-Moscow Complex (Incentra), Moscow on March 26.

The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the military-run Viettel Group recently launched a national vaccination information management system.

In the period 2010-2016, over 5 million rural labourers attended vocational training courses, with 40% of them enrolled in agricultural courses, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said at a conference in Hanoi on March 23.

Four cities in Vietnam – Hue, Da Nang, Hoi An and Dong Ha – have agreed to enter World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme to show how cities can be a hub for creativity, ambition and innovation in dealing with climate change.

A press conference was held in Hanoi on March 21 to announce a start-up festival for students which is scheduled to take place in the capital city on March 25.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha has called for the concerted efforts from the entire community to address environmental challenges in general and wastewater in particular.

Vietnam’s Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung paid a working visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from March 16-18 to promote bilateral cooperation in labour.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee in collaboration with the Fund for Vietnamese Young Talents held a ceremony in Hanoi on March 19 to honour the ten winners of the Vietnam Outstanding Youth Faces Award 2016.

A solemn requiem was held in Erfurt, Germany on March 19 to pay tribute and pray for Vietnamese soldiers who died in Gac Ma naval battle almost 30 years ago.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and relevant State agencies to strengthen management over forest and forest land planning, complete policies on forest protection and development.

The Food Safety Department said on March 15 that the National Interdisciplinary Steering Committee on Food Safety started the implementation of the action month for food safety 2017 themed “Safe production, trade and consumption of fresh and raw food; Controlling alcohol and preventing alcohol poisoning.”

US Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius and Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen The Phuong co-chaired the conference on healing the aftermaths of post-war bombs and mines.

A ceremony to sign a cooperation deal between ride-hailing firm Uber and the Vietnam Youth Federation (VYF) to help start-ups was held in Hanoi on March 14. The agreement is part of Uber’s start-up initiative in Vietnam called UberExchange.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a decision on the implementation of energy labels made compulsory for certain equipment and vehicles, application of minimum energy efficiency and roadmap.

The organising board has announced the ten winners of the Vietnam Outstanding Youth Faces Award 2016 and an awarding ceremony is scheduled to take place on March 19 in Hanoi.

Construction of a new terminal at Da Nang International Airport is mostly completed and trial operation is scheduled for April 25 - 28, said Le Khac Hong, General Director of the Da Nang International Terminal Investment and Operation Joint Stock Company, on March 13.

This key task was paid special attention by many delegates at the 28th plenary conference of the Vietnam National Committee on Youth held in Hanoi on March 10.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) of Vietnam and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Youth Union (LPRYU) have agreed to jointly organise activities to celebrate the 55th anniversary of diplomatic ties and 40 years since the signing of the Vietnam-Laos Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC).