(VOVworld) - The Hanoi Traditional Trade Village Tourism Festival 2016 opened on Thursday in Hanoi, featuring the booths of 250 traditional handicraft villages, enterprises, and travel companies from the northern region.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam has joined international conventions and regional and bilateral initiatives on human trafficking and has also issued laws and national programs to prevent this crime.

(VOVworld) – The President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Nguyen Thien Nhan, said the satisfaction index of public administrative service needs to be measured in places where people are served.

(VOVworld) – The World Bank in Vietnam launched the Vietnam Development Report 2016, entitled “Transforming Vietnamese Agriculture: Gaining More from Less”, in Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVworld)- A conference on climate change adaptation and water resource management in the Mekong River Delta took place in Ca Mau on Monday. In his address, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said climate change seriously threatens the Mekong River Delta.

(VOVworld)- On Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh delivered a speech at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

(VOVworld) - The letter by Vietnamese student Nguyen Thi Thu Trang won the first prize in the 2016 International Letter Writing Competition for Young People held by the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Imagining herself as the three-year-old Syrian boy who was drowned off the coast of Turkey, Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang wrote a letter from the child to himself when he reaches the age of 45.

(VOVworld) - The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and 21 municipal and provincial authorities have signed an agreement to jointly create a favorable business environment. Speaking at the event in Hanoi on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue suggested building an annual business development index which also covers corporate revenues and workers’ income.

(VOVworld) - The Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) introduced the “Vietnam’s diplomatic Bluebook 2015” at a ceremony on Thursday in Hanoi.

(VOVworld) - The Israeli Embassy and Hanoi’s People Committee have jointly held a workshop to learn from Israeli experience in the foundation of an ecosystem favoring creativity and business start-ups.