Households in the capital’s Old Quarters can enjoy preferential tax rates if they offer motorbike parking services in their premises, Hà Nội Mayor Nguyễn Đức Chung has said.

At the beginning of last year a woman named H. in HCM City transferred a total of VNĐ10 billion (US$437,800) in several times to a man she met on social media upon his request. She later realised it was a scam.

Transforming the workplace for women requires the elimination of structural barriers, discriminatory laws and social norms to create equal economic opportunities, said United Nations Resident Co-ordinator Kamal Malhotra. He spoke Friday at a dialogue organised by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and UNDP about women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.

Customs officers of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng yesterday seized nearly 1,000 breeding chickens and ducks that were being illegally smuggled into the country from China.

From early March, HCM City local authorities will consider granting land-use certificates for those who bought land and houses through informal agreements as well as fix long-term existing environmental pollution problems.

The HCM City People’s Committee on Friday established a headmasters’ council, an association of the headmasters of 46 universities in the city.

All districts and communes in the capital city of Hà Nội will start campaigns this week to control the pervasive encroachment of cafes, beer joints and cars on sidewalks.

Ministries and localities have been told not to buy cars this year unless otherwise dictated by a comprehensive review of the  number of State-owned cars.

It is fairly common that women are forbidden from going near shrimp farms in several southern provinces because they are believed to bring bad luck.