Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged faster disbursement of Official Development Assistance (ODA) capital and concessional loans following slow disbursement in the first half of the year.

The Đà Nẵng City portal received more than 500 questions in the first half of this year, reaching 141 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

A torrential downpour, which began on Tuesday evening and lasted well into Wednesday morning, has triggered landslide on some localities in Lai Châu Province’s Mường Tè District, disrupting the traffic flow.

A 65km section of Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Highway, from Túy Loan intersection in Đà Nẵng City to Tam Kỳ intersection in Quảng Nam Province, opened to the public on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs needs to set up a council to assess and define poor districts in order to support fast and sustainable poverty reduction, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said yesterday.

Lương Hậu Tân, director of the Mường Chà District Health Centre in the northern highland province of Điện Biên, says he has seen an increasing number of suicide attempts by villagers drinking weed killers.

The HCM City Department of Information and Communication is working with companies to provide free wi-fi for 100,000 workers by 2019.

Ensuring social security, knowledge and stable incomes for workers is a top priority for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of  Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Doãn Mậu Diệp, said yesterday. He spoke at the opening of a Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) from these countries in central Đà Nẵng City.

Repairing newly-built substandard offshore fishing vessels is a matter of great economic, political and social significance that should be done immediately, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday.