From now until 2020, elderly people with no pension or state allowance, living in poor circumstances or in mountainous, island or ethnic minority areas will be entitled to social benefits.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved the widening of Trường Chinh and Tân Kỳ Tân Quý streets in Tân Phú and Tân Bình districts to ease traffic congestion.

Stringent regulations regarding foreign loans are influencing the disbursement of loans committed by lending organisations to carry out projects in Việt Nam, said Chief Representative of Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Việt Nam Office Fujita Yasuo on Thursday.

Hà Nội People’s Procuracy has issued a document ordering annulment of a previous decision by the local police on April 15.

Hà Nội Transport Service Company (Transerco) will replace all No 50 buses with new ones that provide passengers with free wifi and other conveniences.

Starting from June, new price ceilings will be applied on 1,900 medical services, with many expected to be increased two- or three-fold, as per a new circular issued by the Ministry of Health recently, as an attempt to drive up the number of those enrolled into health insurance programme.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has submitted a variety of potential solutions to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to help the struggling pig-farming industry recover.

 In 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, authorities uncovered 430 cases of human trafficking, involving 600 accused and 1,500 victims. Some 85 per cent of the victims were to be sold to other countries, mainly to China – in 195 cases – involving a total of 378 accused , while 490 victims were freed.

The Đắk Nông Provincial Inspection Committee yesterday issued strictures following the results of its investigation into management violations committed by a number of the province’s officials.