Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, overseas remittances to HCM City reached a record high of US$6.1 billion last year, up more than 15 from 2019, a city leader told a meeting on Thursday.

The HCM City Oncology Hospital will join with the Vietnam Medical Association and Roche Vietnam in implementing a project on improving access to advanced therapies for high-risk breast cancer patients during period 2020-25 as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed on March 18.

Bình Phước Province should focus on restructuring its agriculture, especially its major crops and livestock species, to make it sustainable, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has said.

Refillables Hoi An is located in Cẩm Thanh Commune, Hội An City and sells eco-friendly products without packaging by refilling containers.

A murder investigation has been launched after a Vietnamese woman was stabbed to death in South Korea. 

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has built many irrigation projects in recent years to cope with the impact of climate change.

HCM City should develop a master plan to urbanise its five outlying districts of Hóc Môn, Bình Chánh, Nhà Bè, Hóc Môn, and Cần Giờ by 2030, a former legislative chief has said.