HCM City authorities’ efforts to relocate people living in slums along the city’s polluted canals as part of its urban upgrade programme faces a major hurdle: most of the slum dwellers do not want to move since their livelihoods are dislocated.  

As the country's National Assembly (NA) election day, scheduled for May 22, approaches, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is promoting stronger political participation by women.

The Project Management Board No.1 has proposed the Ministry of Transport should increase funding for the Tân Phú-Bảo Lộc Expressway in the Central Highland province of Lâm Đồng.

Police in this central province have arrested a truck driver who fled the scene of an accident in Vạn Hà Township that killed a mother and her child yesterday morning.

The US Government will continue to provide disaster relief grants to help Việt Nam respond to the severe drought and saltwater intrusion affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern provinces and Central Highlands, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced last Friday.

 In the first three months of the year, 121 fires, three-fourth of the number during the same period last year, occurred, injuring nine people.

HCM City has announced that it will pump an estimated VNĐ11.61 trillion into 84 projects in an attempt to reduce floods over the next five years.

Việt Nam’s maritime force chased six Chinese fishing vessels out of its waters in the central province of Quảng Bình, the municipal border defence force confirmed yesterday.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained 23 Vietnamese fishermen on charges of illegally fishing in the waters off of Terengganu and Pahang states.