Former Deputy Minister of Transport, Professor Lã Ngọc Khuê, talks to the Lao Động (Labour) and Việt Nam News newspapers about the glaring imbalance of Việt Nam’s traffic system: the rail market share falling precipitously, the airline sector is overloaded and an abused road transportation system results in huge losses of national resources and higher product prices, as well as worsening pollution and traffic congestion.

Đặng Huy Đông, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, talks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about why approval of the Planning Law will be delayed until the next National Assembly full house meeting in October.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked Đắk Lắk Province’s People’s Committee to investigate illegal logging in Ea Súp District.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the Ministry of Public Security to  revoke the 516 privileged blue plates given to cars owned by private companies without further delay.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has called for strong political will and feasible measures to achieve growth targets set for each sector this year.

The central province of Phú Yên has restarted construction of a solid garbage treatment plant in Hòa Kiến and An Phú communes of Tuy Hòa city after a three-year delay.

The State needs to take responsibility and apologise to people who were wrongfully sentenced, National Assembly deputies said yesterday.

Colombia's FARC guerrillas will disarm in 20 days, rather than this week as originally planned, with guerrillas returning to civil life in 60 days, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday.

A 90-metre long tunnel-shield machine is being used to build underground tunnels for trains that will connect the Opera House and Ba Son metro stations in District 1.

Eurozone finance ministers failed to reach a deal for fresh bailout cash for Greece on Monday, as a row with the International Monetary Fund over debt relief dragged on.