Migrant workers pray for more schools near Industrial Zones so that they do not have to send their children back to their home villages to study.

HCM City has taken great efforts to mobilise capital from the private sector as the City’s State budgets can meet only 20 per cent of the capital required for the city’s development of VNĐ1,800 trillion (over US$80 billion) in the period 2016 – 2020.

Scientists have created a map that warns against land degradation risks in northern mountainous provinces of Điện Biên and Lai Châu.

Thanks to a new solar power system, residents of a small island community will have clean energy on-demand—a stark change from the prior status quo of accessing power just six hours a day.

Việt Nam’s health insurance fund is forecasted to struggle with an enormous deficit of more than VNĐ10 trillion (US$434.8 million) this year, according to a newly released information from Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI).

The degradation of Thảo Long Dyke in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province has worried locals of salty intrusion, which affects their daily water source and agricultural cultivation.

A regulation recently issued by the Hà Nội People’s Committee requires basements to be a compulsory part of new constructions in the inner areas of the city.

“After seven years of development, I can proudly state that Thai farmers now cannot compete with limes from the Chanh Việt Company,” said Nguyễn Văn Hiển. Hiển is the owner of the largest lime plantation in the Mekong Delta which creates a significant value chain for the Vietnamese agriculture sector.

Some modern slaughterhouse projects have to be postponed because of the new circular issued by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The shift also delays the plan of closing old slaughter facilities.