Around 29,759 litres of home-brewed liquor have been seized in Hà Nội in the first 12 days of a citywide campaign against illicit alcohol.

A new anti-corruption assessment indicates that the fight against corruption on the provincial level in Việt Nam has only met half of the Government’s expectations.

The Prime Minister on Thursday asked the Ministry of Public Security to urgently investigate the information that organised criminals were threatening officials of the northern Bắc Ninh province’s People’s Committee and other local offices.

Phạm Thị Cúc, who lives Hải Ninh Commune in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Quảng Ninh District, had hoped that her life could change if her husband worked as a guest worker overseas.

HCM City wants to expand the use of online public services to simplify administrative procedures and reduce their cost for the public, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến said.

Việt Nam’s cashew exports in the first two months of the year fell by 3.3 per cent to US$255 million, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association.

An estimated 12.5 million people will be eligible for agriculture land tax exemption, leaving merely 77,000 people still subject to this tax.

It was an endearing sight – a little boy accompanying his mother as she walked the streets, picking up trash.

 The national transport sector has been told to seek ways of developing infrastructure to catch up with the growing travel demand of Vietnamese people, despite a severe shortage of capital.