A newly-built dyke project using financial assistance from Belgium is expected to provide protection to as many as 500 people living on the banks of the Luy River in Bình Thuận Province’s Bắc Bình District.

HCM City plans to spend VNĐ800 billion (US$34.5 million) to take care of people living in difficult circumstances and people who provide meritorious services for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, a year-on-year increase of VNĐ35 billion ($1.5 million).

In a bid to improve the behaviour of civil servants and ensure professionalism and transparency while performing their duties, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) has completed a code of conduct for civil servants.

On Thursday, Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng asked the army to make all-out efforts to complete its targets and tasks for 2019.

 Students at secondary schools in HCM City are encouraging their peers and adults to classify garbage before it is recycled.

The Tết (Lunar New Year) bonuses of enterprises in HCM City will rise an average of 30 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the city’s Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

The Government Office should listen more to public opinion, Government members, relevant ministries and agencies to improve its role as a key consultancy body, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport is expected to handle more than four million passengers in the month during Tềt, the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 5 this year.

Criminal proceedings have been launched against more former officials of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Việt Nam (BIDV) charged with “violating regulations on banking activities, other activities relating to banking activities,” the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday..