The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu signed an action plan for co-operation with Indonesia’s Padang city on Wednesday.

A smart city is an ideal place for people to live and work, but it is also a sustainable combination of robust economics, civil society and clean environment, Nguyễn Minh Hồng, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (MoIC) said at a symposium on developing smart cities in Việt Nam held in the capital on Thursday. 

Retail companies with responsible forest products sourcing policies are seeing numerous tangible business benefits, demonstrating that sustainability makes business sense, according to a new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). 

Fishermen from the central provinces, which saw the Formosa spill, have been warned not to catch species living in the deepest levels of the ocean for 20 nautical miles offshore.

The HCM City Market Management on Tuesday discovered 70 tonnes of smuggled sugar in Bình Tân District.

The Central Rural Power Project Management Board--in co-operation with the HCM City-based SolarBK company--will start construction of a solar power system on An Bình islet of Lý Sơn Island next month.

QUẢNG NAM – Several residents of Điện Nam Trung in Quảng Nam Province on Wednesday blocked Provincial Road 607 to protest the constant movement of heavy, noisy construction trucks.

Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI) has agreed to share with the Ministry of Health (MoH) personal infomation database of more than 24 million households.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has proposed that the Government choose a Japanese company as a consultant contractor to implement the planning of underground parking stations in the city.