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Hanoi began the pilot operation of a new grassroots-level local administration model on June 20. The implementation of the two-tier local administration model will start on July 1, 2025. VNA Photo: Văn Điệp

Over the past 100 years, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has thrived under the Party’s leadership and the State’s management, significantly contributing to the country’s development in all fields and realising the nation’s aspiration of building a strong, prosperous, and happy Vietnam. VNA Photo

The National Press Festival 2025 officially opened at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on June 19 morning, marking a pivotal moment for Vietnam's media landscape as the country is celebrating its 100th anniversary of the Revolutionary Press Day (June 21). Running until June 21, the festival brings together more than 80 central and local media organisations, featuring nearly 130 exhibition booths that cover the full spectrum of national life, encompassing economy, politics, culture, society, defence, security, and foreign affairs.VNA Photo

Quang Ngai has a great potential for community-based tourism with pristine beaches and majestic landscapes. Especially, when Kon Tum province merges with Quang Ngai province, it will open up new steps of development as Kon Tum imbued with the identity of the Central Highlands mountains and forests, creating a colorful, unique and attractive tourism picture. Photo: Hai Au-VNA

According to the State Bank of Vietnam, there are currently 47 organizations providing e-wallet services with the number of active accounts being about 30.27 million, accounting for 65.8% of the total 46.0 million activated e-wallets. In the first months of 2025, non-cash payment transactions increased by 44.43% in quantity. The payment value in 2024 reached over VND29.2 million billion, 26 times the country's GDP, the rate of people aged 15 and over having bank accounts reached 86.97%. Photo: Tran Viet - VNA

Ninh Thuan province is mobilizing people to convert ineffective land, garden land, and low hills into fruit growing areas; attracting businesses and households to invest in high-tech production, cultivation according to VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards. At the same time, developing a chain of links from production to consumption between people, farms, cooperatives with businesses and supermarket systems; linking fruit growing areas with the development of agricultural ecotourism to increase the overall production value. Photo: Nguyen Thanh - VNA

Nhung Van Company Limited of Bui Van Nhung in Nhan Nghia commune, Lac Son district (Hoa Binh) has been affirming its position with high-quality products. Of them, turmeric starch products with OCOP brand reach overseas markets. Photo: Thanh Hai - VNA

The central city of Da Nang has decided to preserve natural forests right in the heart of the city. Da Nang is currently the only locality in the country that owns three special-use forests: Ba Na - Nui Chua Nature Reserve, Son Tra Nature Reserve and Nam Hai Van Landscape Protection Area. According to statistics from the Da Nang City Forest Protection Department, in this ecological areas, nearly 1,700 species of plants and 443 species of animals have been recorded, a rare biodiversity density in urban areas of Vietnam. These forests are a place where people find balance, a commitment to the relationship between development and conservation. Photo: VNA

The National Assembly (NA) is deliberating and voting to pass a resolution on provincial-level administrative unit reorganisation in 2025 at the 9th session on June 12. VNA Photo

Ho Chi Minh City is now running the pilot operation of a new grassroots-level local administration model in 102 freshly established wards and communes. Starting 8 am on June 12, each unit conducts trial operations at its respective public administrative centre, located within the premises of its headquarters. VNA Photo

Plums, called Tam Hoa plums, in Bac Ha in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, are in harvest season. Out of all of Vietnam's different plums, most say Bac Ha's are the tastiest because they're so sweet and have small pits. The region is called the White Plateau because it's home to more than 1,000ha of plum trees. It'sthe northwest region's biggest plum-growing area. Tam Hoa plum farming has helped thousands of ethnic minority households in Bac Ha district in Lao Cai province escape poverty. Bac Ha is home to the Mong, Nung, Tay and Phu La ethnic minority groups. VNA Photo: Hồng Ninh

The northern mountainous province of Ha Giang is in the harvest season. Ripe rice and brilliant yellow stretch at the foot of the mountain. VNA Photo: Đức Thọ

The Commando Brigade 113 under the Commando Corps held an oath-taking ceremony for new soldiers in 2025, marking the start of soldiers’ military lives. VNA Photo: Trọng Đức

In recent years, the work of developing the Party in Tuyen Quang has changed significantly, especially in ethnic minority areas in Yen Son district. Many places have eliminated the "blank area" of party members and the new party members are increasingly younger, daring to think, daring to do, daring to change to rise up and take control of their lives. VNA Photo: Hoàng Hải

Gia Lai province is promoting the application of high technology in banana cultivation to increase value, build it into a key agricultural export product, and contribute to the goal of restructuring the agricultural sector towards sustainability. By the end of the first quarter of 2025, Gia Lai province has been granted 227 growing area codes with an area of ​​nearly 9,700 hectares and 38 packaging facility codes, with a capacity of 1,550 - 1,700 tonnes of fresh fruit a day for export to major markets. Currently, Gia Lai banana products are present in Japan, Korea, the Middle East. VNA Photo: Hoài Nam

Phuoc Long is the first district in Bac Lieu province to be honored by the Prime Minister as an advanced new rural-style district on May 26, 2025, marking an important milestone in the local development of the Party Committee, government and people. VNA Photo: Chanh Đa

Lam Dong Science and Technology Application Center, with the goal of realizing "science serving life", is the core unit transferring technical advances, helping farmers access new varieties and high technology, contributing to building Lam Dong's agriculture to be productive, high-quality and sustainable. VNA Photo: Hoàng Hiếu

The first shipment of 500 tonnes of Vietnam’s low-carbon footprint rice set sail for Japan on June 5, marking the international debut of the rice produced under the initiative to cultivate one million hectares of low-emission and high-quality rice in the Mekong Delta (the one-million-hectare rice project). At a ceremony in Thot Not district, Can Tho city, on June 5, the Vietnam Rice Industry Association (Vietrisa) and Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC celebrated the export of Japonica rice bearing the new eco-label and priced at 820 USD per tonne. VNA Photo: Thu Hiền

Farmers in many districts in An Giang began harvesting early summer-autumn rice crop 2025. Localities have harvested over 800 hectares out of their total acreage of 229,000 hectares. The province is expected to yield about 1.4 million tonnes of rice this crop. VNA Photo: Thanh Sang

On June 5, the ‘Green and low-emission Vietnamese rice’ trademark will officially enter the export market. The first shipment, bound for Japan, is seen as a significant breakthrough for the rice industry. This also marks the initial success of the ‘Sustainable development of one million hectares of high-quality, low-emission rice associated with green growth in the Mekong Delta by 2030’ project (referred to as the one-million-hectare rice project). The Trung An Company, in partnership with Japan’s MURASE Group, will become the first enterprise to export rice under this trademark to the Japanese market. VNA Photo: Hồng Nhung