Social Affairs

Party and State officials and local authorities paid visits to units and localities ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 21-22.

Vietnamese diplomatic agencies in the US, South Africa and western provinces of Canada have organied get-togethers for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The Hanoi youth union held a ceremony on January 20 to honour 10 outstanding youths in 2016 for their significant contributions in various fields.

Hanoi is planning to offer 120 online public services in the first quarter of 2017, Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communication Phan Lan Tu announced at the conference on January 19.

Plenty of art and cultural offers for you to enjoy the best of Rooster’s Year in Vietnam.

The “Calligraphy Festival of the Year of the Rooster 2017” is a playground for calligraphers to create the most beautiful and creative letters to welcome the spring.

Welcoming the Tet (Lunar New Year) festival, on the “Ong Cong - Ong Tao” (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) ceremony on the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year, which falls on January 20 this year, every family in Vietnam is busy staging a farewell ceremony for the Land Genie and the Kitchen Gods on their yearly visit of Heaven.

The “Vietnamese Goods Identification-Proud of Vietnamese Goods” programme, launched in September 2016, has contributed to further spreading the message of the "Vietnamese use Vietnamese products” campaign, said Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong.

The Government recently issued Decree No 2 to regulate compensation forms and levels to help farmers recover production after being affected by natural disasters and epidemics.

The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi heralds the dawn of the New Lunar Year with a host of unique events, including a traditional Vietnamese market, a dragon dance, and a delicious Tet-inspired menu at Spices Garden.

Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don Tuan Phong believed at the meeting in Hanoi on January 18 the VUFO and the Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organisation Affairs will receive more assistance and collaboration from partners.

On January 16, at the offices of the Government, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung worked with Hanoi leaders and ministries on the solution for traffic congestion in the Capital city.

The first-ever Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Vietnam`s capital city of Hanoi came into operation on the last day of 2016.

Vietnamese students in Japan and expatriates in Cambodia took part in get-togethers to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) on January 15.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue instructed the Central Steering Committee for National Target Programmes set higher targets for the multidimensional poverty reduction programme at a committee meeting in Hanoi on January 10.

On January 9, the Hanoi People’s Committee launched an online service with information about weather conditions and environment indexes, including air quality index, rainfall and flooding.

The unreasonably warm winter has caused up to 80 percent of the peach blossom (dao) trees in the capital city’s major peach blossom gardens to bloom prematurely, well ahead of the Tet (traditional Lunar New Year) holiday for which they are an indispensable decoration.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed Cao Bang province provide sustainable livelihoods to local residents and become a green model in the pillars of agriculture, tourism and trade, at the local working session with its authorities on January 9.

The 9th blood donation festival called “Red Sunday” was officially launched across 25 cities and provinces across the country on January 8.

Vietnam has overtaken Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), Thailand and Taiwan on the list of most desirable locations for expat career opportunities, according to new data released from the latest Expat Explorer survey from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in 2017.