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 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.

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.

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

The Việt Nam Viral Hepatitis Alliance, the Community Health Research Development Institute and the HCM City Open University will organise free screening for hepatitis B and C for nearly 2,000 people, half of them, disadvantaged, in HCM City next Saturday (July 28).

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.

A requiem ceremony was held in the central province of Quảng Trị on July 21 to commemorate soldiers who died during an 81-day battle here in the summer of 1972 to safeguard the country.

Two foreigners who were given fake money as change in Hà Nội last week were conned by a taxi driver, not a cyclo driver, as previously reported, police in Hoàn Kiếm reported.