The Project Management Board Unit 85 has submitted a project proposal to the Ministry of Transport to build a highway that would connect Hàm Nghi and Vũng Áng in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has decided to withdrawn the investment certificate of Đắk Brot Hydropower Plant and stop construction in response to long delays.

The Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, VFF local units and their member organisations have decided to set aside VNĐ50.8 billion (US$2.3 million) to support provinces affected by prolonged droughts, saline intrusion and mass fish death.

Việt Nam has seen a remarkable reduction in the exposure rate to secondhand smoke (SHS) over the past decade, an official has said.

Illegal Vietnamese workers in South Korea who voluntarily return home from May 1 to September 30 this year will not have to pay any administrative penalties.

Nearly 97,000 labourers were employed in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 0.29 per cent, according to a report of the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Disasters such as drought, salt water intrusion and severe cold have already caused higher financial losses this year than last year.

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The marine economy in Mekong Delta’s Kiên Giang Province has developed rapidly over the past five years after local government investment of VNĐ111 trillion (US$5 billion) in the 2011 – 2015 period.