Households at risk from landslides and flash floods in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên are still waiting to be relocated to safe areas.

A HCM City programme to introduce new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses is facing difficulties due to a lack of financial support from the city and poor infrastructure.

War injuries have never been able to stop war veteran Trần Quang Liệu from his dream to become a Math teacher.

New driving forces for growth will be needed for Việt Nam for the coming years, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said yesterday at a meeting with the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission in Hà Nội.

The Ministry of Transport has decided to cancel two national highway projects. The projects include upgrade work to the Chợ Mới-Bắc Kạn National Highway and the new National Highway 3 (Hà Nội – Thái Nguyên).

The summer-autumn rice harvest in the southern region has been good and prices of the grain are high, according to provincial departments of agriculture and rural development.

Financial development with a focus on financial inclusion for people of all incomes will be the key for stable economic development, Vice Rector of HCM City Open University Nguyễn Minh Hà said at Việt Nam’s Business & Economics Research Conference that ended today (July 24).  

The Tuy Phong District People’s Court in the southern province of Bình Thuận yesterday sentenced 10 people to from two to three years and a half of imprisonment for causing public disorder in Hòa Minh Commune on June 10 this year.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình has ordered the administration of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng to quickly determine the cause of the tragic accident that killed four people and injured 16 others early Sunday morning.

Thirteen hundred people were sent to help 108 households of Sìn Hồ District in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu evacuate to safe places during the last historic flood.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has issued a warning of attacks by malicious code, which the organisation believe is targeting banks and the country’s vital infrastructure networks.

More than 60 young overseas Vietnamese from 10 countries and territories are taking part in the annual Summer Camp that opened today (July 23) in HCM City.

President Trần Đại Quang suspended Trương Minh Tuấn from his position as the Minister of Information and Communications on Monday.

Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Welfare Đào Ngọc Dung has called on authorities of Gia Lai and Kon Tum provinces to investigate a case in which a housemaid was allegedly mistreated by her owner.

Authorities in Kiên Giang Province have been tasked to coordinate with the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment to retrieve 1,029 original land use rights certificates reported missing on Phú Quốc Island District, a senior police official said.

Hà Nội residents are struggling to find houses because the city is still lacking of social housing projects and some of them have been halted by capital shortage.

The HCM City Department of Construction is piloting a “single window” mechanism for issuing construction licences.  

The authorities of HCM City plan to build major infrastructure to reduce traffic jams and flooding in and around the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area in District 2, according to Nguyễn Thành Phong, chairman of the city’s People’s Committee.  

20 years since the launch of the Thủ Thiêm new urban area project in District 2, people are still living in temporary shelters.

llegal mining has caused not only losses of natural resources but also environmental problems in the Central Highlands provinces of Việt Nam.