Some nine million administrative records were registered and returned through postal services last year, saving more than VNĐ1.6 trillion (US$71 million), an official said.

Subdividing land into housing-sized pieces to sell off is rampant in HCM City, especially in suburban areas, but according to analysts and officials, it is a violation of the law and undermines urban planning.

Workers at industrial zones nationwide put a lot of hopes and wishes on the improvement of their living and working conditions ahead of upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and labourers in the South.

Dozens of houses in HCM City’s Districts 2 and Bình Thạnh have developed wide cracks on walls and seen their foundations sink allegedly due to the construction of metro line No 1.

HCM City authorities will work closely with central provinces, where mass fish deaths have occurred because of chemical substances discharged into waterways, to prevent and stop the trade of dead or dying fish from these areas in HCM City.

Boat owners in the central coastal province of Quảng Ngãi are struggling to find workers to go offshore fishing, Voice of Việt Nam’s (VOV) radio station reported.

The Strengthening Profession-Oriented Higher Education (POHE) project has supported Vietnamese university education by connecting training with reality, said Dr Nguyễn Thị Kim Phụng, head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Higher Education Department.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement offers opportunities and better working environments for female entrepreneurs and workers, but also poses several challenges for them, participants heard in Hà Nội this week.

“As a minister, I am sorry,” Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà told local media yesterday as he led an inspection team to take samples of water and sediment in the sea off of Vũng Áng in the central Hà Tĩnh Province.