Lai Châu border guard arrests human traffickers

Border guards in Phong Thổ District in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu have detained four people in connection with human trafficking, Captain Nguyễn Mạnh Linh, deputy head of Ma Lù Thàng border point, said.

HCM City aims to have no poor households by end of 2020

Local authorities need to learn more about the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and offer solutions to reduce the poverty rate in HCM City, Võ Thị Dung, deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee, said at a workshop on sustainable poverty reduction held yesterday (May 22).

New policies needed to meet workers’ housing needs

HCM City is home to thousands of migrant labourers working in industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs), but its housing projects meet only a fraction of the demand for stable accommodations.

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