Household-owned timber plantations must be substantially reformed in order to yield sustainable profits for their owners.

HCM City is eyeing bottom-up administrative reforms, a meeting between city leaders and commune and ward leaders heard on Tuesday.

More than 80 per cent of respondents surveyed about the proposed train design for the city’s metro line 3 rated the plans highly and over 90 per cent of them said they would love to try the new means of transport when the metro line is officially operational.

Local people in craft villages that make fishing nets and other tools are now busy serving the needs of fishermen during the annual flooding season.

The use of agricultural by-products for feeding livestock and as substrate for other crops has helped farmers around the country earn extra incomes while also protecting the environment.

Nearly 28,000 out of 154,000 food businesses in Hà Nội were found to have violated food safety regulations and faced fines of more than VNĐ14 billion (US$594,700) since August last year.

HCM City should learn lessons from major cities in developed countries on how to become a smart city, speakers said at an international conference held on Sept 28 in the city.

Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quảng Ngãi Province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.

HCM City authorities have decided to increase parking fees at all lots run by private operators in the inner city from October 1.