The capital city aims to reduce the number of poor households by 10,230 this year, a decrease of 0.6 per cent of last year’s total, and support at least 99 per cent of children in extremely disadvantaged circumstances.

Nguyễn Tài Thành, a medical worker at Quốc Oai High School in Hà Nội feels put under great pressure at work.

Authorities plan to demolish 68 illegal houses, villas and restaurants in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve if households do not dismantle themselves before deadline of September.

Almost a year after Hà Nội’s leader voiced out his determination to eradicate the so-called market selling automotive parts – many of which were stolen goods, things hardly changed.

The Thiên Mậu Thánh Mẫu Pagoda festival organising committee auctioned a collection of nine lanterns in Thủ Dầu Một City, raising VNĐ3.7 billion (US$163,000) last weekend.

HCM City is now offering online registration for 15 administrative procedures managed by the city’s Transport Department.

Work to upgrade HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport must be completed at the earliest to ensure the new facilities can be used from next year, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has said.

As many as 490 foreigners have registered for electronic visas to enter Việt Nam, 210 of whom have been issued with their visas, after the first week of the e-visa pilot scheme, the Ministry of Public Security’s Department of Immigration has said.

Companies in the southern province of Đồng Nai need to find more than 30,000 new employees by the end of next month to make up for the shortage caused by the post-Tết staff turnover, according to the local Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.