(VOVworld) – The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and the Hanoi Buddhist Sangha Executive Board organized a grand ceremony at Quan Su pagoda in Hanoi on Monday to mark Buddha’s 2559th birth anniversary, Vesak 2015.

(VOVworld) – A meeting to mark World No Tobacco Day May 31 and Vietnam’s National No Tobacco Week was held in Hanoi on Sunday. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien attended the event.

(VOVworld) - The 2015 Southern Cuisine Festival, introducing more than 200 local dishes, opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

(VOVworld) – The Government Inspectorate held a workshop in Hanoi on building a strategy to develop the inspectorate sector to 2025, with a vision towards 2035.

(VOVworld) – More than 5,000 young people participated in the launch ceremony for the 2015 Summer Volunteer Campaign in northern Thai Nguyen province on Thursday.

(VOVworld) – The Head of the Party Central Committee’s Communications and Information Commission Dinh The Huynh said that external information was an important part of communications activities to propagate Vietnam’s Party and state policies.

(VOVworld) – On Tuesday, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai and Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam chaired a meeting with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and related agencies regarding administrative reform in the sector.

(VOVworld)- A seminar of the Expert Group on Security in Asia Pacific under the theme “Security for a people-centered ASEAN” opened in Da Nang City on Monday.

(VOVworld) – The 6th national festival for good young workers 2015 began in the southern province of Binh Duong on Saturday.

(VOVworld)- The Prime Minister has approved a project to make Vietnamese rice better known to the world. Under the project, Vietnamese rice is expected to become a world leading trade mark for high quality and food safety by 2030.