Economic development must go together with environmental protection and social development to ensure sustainable growth and prosperity, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

In 2013, they set up VeXeRe JSC (roughly translated as cheap coach tickets), a tech start-up that operates an online bus ticketing platform.

The HCM City People’s Court on December 31 sentenced former Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyễn Hữu Tín to seven years in prison for violating regulations on management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness under Article 219 of the Penal Code 2015.

It may be Sunday morning, but you’ll find Nguyễn Việt Hùng enjoying a coffee, and of course, keep up-to-date with work as he fastidiously checks his smart phone.

Lý Đình Quân, director of the Songhan Incubator, one of the first private start-up incubators in Việt Nam, talks with reporter Chi Lan about the role of the private sector to support a new generation of start-ups in Viet Nam.

All residents in HCM City will have electronic medical records connected to the database of the city's health facilities by 2025, according to the HCM City People’s Committee.

Buôn Ma Thuột City in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Lắk is projected to become the central municipality of the Tây Nguyên region under the Conclusion 67-KL/TW of the Politburo on Buôn Ma Thuột development to 2030. 

In July 2017, a pilot programme by the public security ministry allowed vehicle owners in Hà Nội, HCM City, Đà Nẵng, Hải Phòng and Cần Thơ to buy registration plates via auctions.

The HCM City University Medical Centre has successfully transferred many advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular intervention, traumatology and orthopaedics to Sóc Trăng Province General Hospital over the past two years.