Việt Nam should utilise cutting-edge technology to reform education to become a fast mover, said Professor Ju Ho Lee, Republic of Korea (RoK)’s former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology.

Việt Nam is ranked under the global average in the open budget index, especially in terms of public participation.

Trần Quốc Thái, deputy director of Urban Development Department, at the Ministry of Construction said at a yesterday seminar in Hà Nội in order to develop smart cities, planning must be one step ahead.

Fire-fighting police in districts throughout HCM City are working with investors and managers of apartment buildings to strengthen fire-prevention measures at all high-rises and apartment buildings in the city, following a fire at the Carina Plaza apartment complex in District 8 that killed 13 people on March 23.

Construction of Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai at an earlier date than initially planned would help reduce the overload on neighbouring Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City, experts said at a seminar held in the city yesterday.

More than 7,000 primary and secondary school students in HCM City are expected to benefit from better access to English and Vietnamese books, online and multimedia facilities, and other library resources by 2020 with the launch of the second phase of the Words on Wheels mobile digital library programme yesterday (March 29).

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and UNICEF Việt Nam on March 30 launched a technical assistance programme called “Child Friendly City Initiative Project in HCM City for 2017-2021”.

The Ministry of Public Security arrested five suspects in an online gambling ring, worth hundreds of billions of đồng, in HCM City on Thursday afternoon.

With the year just three months old there have already been fires at many wood processing workshops in Bình Dương Province, which have caused injuries to people and damaged properties.