Vice chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Thế Hùng, has ordered districts to quickly eliminate the city’s small and super-narrow houses—which have an area of less than 15 sq metres—by evicting residents, compensating them to move elsewhere and destroying the homes.
The HCM City People’s Court yesterday began its trial of eight former officials of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank) for allegedly “violating regulations on lending activities of credit institutes”.
The industrial production index of HCM City of the first four months rose merely 6.07 per cent compared with the 7.09 per cent of the same period of 2017, according to figures released at a meeting held yesterday to review the city’s socio-economic development.
Innovators and researchers from Asian countries and territories are meeting to exchange experience and knowledge, discuss and collaborate at the 4th Fablab Asia Network Conference that opened yesterday in HCM City.
During the four-day Reunification Day-Labour Day weekend HCM City hospitals admitted more than 51,000 people, including 8,000 for emergency treatment, according to the city Department of Health.
The crew of a Vietnam Airlines (VNA) flight were suspended for landing on an unopened runway at Cam Ranh International Airport in Khánh Hòa Province on April 29.
Heavy rainfall that lasted for a few hours in the early morning of May 2 flooded several streets and alleys in HCM City.
A HCM City pilot car rental service for Government officials that began on May 1 is expected to save more than VNĐ100 million ($4,404) per month for the State budget.
The Department of Overseas Labour Management has directed the arrangement of work for over 160 Vietnamese workers who lost their jobs due to a blaze that broke out in a factory dormitory in Taoyuan city, Taiwan (China) on Saturday.
Four ships belonging to Nam Bình An Limited Co in the coastal northen city of Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh Province were suspended from operation by the local authorities for a safety check after an incident happening for one of their ships on May 1.
The trading of low quality gas, illegal extraction and failure to ensure the safety continue posing dangers to the health and rights of consumers.
Seventy-nine were killed and another 79 injured so far in 113 traffic accidents nationwide during the Reunification Day-Labour Day holiday combo that ended on May 1, the National Traffic Safety Committee reported.
Proposals for draft amended Law on Education by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), especially regulations on private nurseries, are raising concerns among the public, including parents and nursery school teachers.
HCM City is giving priority to developing a collective economic model particularly cooperatives over the current model of farmer households.
The southern province of Long An has begun to keep a close eye on property development in areas adjacent to HCM City.
Firefighters in the city of Đà Nẵng extinguished a fire at the three-storey Bảo Hoàng Motel on Kinh Dương Vương Street, Liên Chiểu District on May 1.
The Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) in collaboration with the Hà Nội Red Cross Society launched the Humanitarian Month (from May 1 to 31) at a ceremony on April 28 in Hà Nội.
Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has planned to switch four major bus stations in the inner city, including Gia Lâm, Mỹ Đình, GIáp Bát and Nước Ngầm, into car parks and inner-city bus interchanges by 2020.
The chief of the HCM City legislature has asked the city administration how it plans to raise resources to fund development.
