The Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations (HAUFO), in collaboration with the embassies of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka in Vietnam, organised a friendship exchange programme in Hanoi on April 26 to celebrate the traditional New Year festivals of several Asian countries in 2025.

More than 300 ambassadors, diplomats and officials from international organisations and hundreds of Hanoi residents joined the fourth annual "For a Green Hanoi" cycling event on November 17 morning in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam-US Friendship Cultural Festival kicked off on July 15 at Book Street in Hanoi to mark 28 years of diplomatic relations and 10 years of the comprehensive partnership between the two countries.

The Global Civic Sharing (GCS) organisation of the Republic of Korea (RoK) on January 20 presented a computer lab worth VND550 million (US$24,300) to Lien Chau secondary school in Hanoi’s Thanh Oai district, on the occasion of the 30th founding anniversary of the Vietnam-RoK diplomatic ties.

The Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations (HAUFO) and the Panamanian Embassy in Vietnam held a programme on November 3 to present warm clothes to disadvantaged children living in the Birla Children’s Village.