The government has approved an agreement on mutual visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders between Việt Nam and the Republic of Cyprus.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered a probe into allegations that the People’s Committee of Vĩnh Phong Commune in Hải Phòng City’s Vĩnh Bảo District has held the red books (home ownership certificates) of 150 households for 19 years.

The World Bank (WB) yesterday approved a US$150 million credit for the Improved Land Governance and Database project of Việt Nam.

Twenty three schools in HCM City will adopt an advanced model that meets international standards this academic year, according to the city Department of Education and Training.

Việt Nam has made significant progress in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty, but this progress has been neither even nor fair, said the latest United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) annual flagship report launched yesterday in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety.

The second phase of a bridge building programme, which aims at building nearly 4,000 bridges in remote areas, will be kicked off next month, said Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN).

Using information technology in agriculture is imperative for improving productivity and quality and reducing costs to bolster the sector’s competitiveness amid the country’s integration, a seminar heard in HCM City on Tuesday.

Management activities on inland waterway transport should be further enhanced to ensure traffic safety. This was main point in a recent instruction issued by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on strengthening measures for safe traffic and security on waterways.