Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has hailed the Party and State’s use of credit to implement social policies, saying the policy contributes to development and poverty reduction.

The roads to Nam Hài Village in Hà Nội’s suburban district of Chương Mỹ are so flooded that the village has been receiving safe water via canoes sent daily by the district’s High Command. At the edge of the village in Nam Phương Tiến commune, the water line reaches towards some roofs and treetops.

The health sector, medical institutions and governments across the country need to closely co-operate with the social insurance agency, which faces a huge deficit, to prevent abuse of the system, the agency’s officials have said.   

Although pleased to know his house will be relocated from the filthy slum along the Đôi Canal in District 8, resident Huỳnh Văn Quý of HCM City is worried he won’t be able to afford a new home.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà yesterday led a team of government officials to meet local officials in areas affected by heavy rains and floods, in order to support recovery efforts.

More than 24,000 train tickets out of 72,000 bookings made online for the Tết period (Lunar New Year holiday) were sold on the first day of sales on Sunday in HCM City.

The Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Prize was awarded to 35 young workers for their outstanding contributions to HCM City’s socio-economic development at a function on Sunday.

The Border Guard in the central province of Hà Tĩnh successfully busted a large-scale drug trafficking case, seized 20,000 methamphetamine synthetic drugs weighing 10kg in total.

Customs officers at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport detected a Vietnamese passenger taking advantage of a new customs procedure to illegally transport watches from Switzerland.