The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to provide vocational training to at least 30,000 people by 2020, 10 per cent of them poor, ethnic minority and rural people whose lives are affected by industrial and other projects.

The HCM City Department of Transport has sought permission to rent 100 more cameras to monitor traffic safety, saying there are no cameras on a number of streets and intersections, which poses difficulties for authorities to tackle traffic problems.

Breeding imported dogs as pets has been now becoming a trend in many in big cities such as Hà Nội and HCM City.

In the neonatal intensive care unit at HCM City’s Pediatrics Hospital 1, overcrowding can become so severe that some infants must stay in beds in the corridors.

A total of 10 prizes were granted to outstanding reporters yesterday in the “Journalism for Sustainable Development Award 2018” awarding ceremony.

As many as 2,000 people were killed by post-war landmines between 2010 and 2014, while an estimated 6.1 million hectares accounting for more than 21 per cent of Việt Nam’s land remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO).

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday gave imprisonment and probation sentences to five former workers of Việt Nam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Eximbank)’s HCM City branch for “lack of responsibilities that caused losses to the State, agency, organisation and enterprise” as well as causing losses of VNĐ264 billion (more than US$11.3 million) to the bank.

The HCM City Department of Health has asked the city People’s Council to order Binh Chanh District to speed up compensation and site clearance procedures so that new medical facilities can be built in the area.

Public spaces are a key measure of urban green growth and sustainable development. With increasing urbanisation, Việt Nam’s cities have paid more and more attention to developing public spaces – but they still face a lot of challenges.