Social housing projects fail to attract tenants

When it comes to social housing or affordable housing for low-income earners, funding is usually a key factor in such projects. However, once the projects are completed, problems in planning, investment management and efficiency tend to crop up.

Shifting sands in VN’s construction industry

With demand for sand for construction rising even as prices are skyrocketing, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Đình Dũng has recommended the use of other materials in construction in place of natural sand.

Aid sent to victims of floods and storms

Authorities and people across the country are joining hands and promoting all effort to support locals in northern mountain provinces that have been hard hit by torrential rains and floods due to storm in the past week.

Cần Thơ begins work on oncology hospital

The Cần Thơ Department of Health yesterday signed package no.1 for the construction of a 500-bed oncology hospital with a joint venture comprising three foreign and two Vietnamese companies.

 

Poor mechanic gifts 200 bikes to students

"I am poor but fortunately I can help other poor people. Doing this will give me peace of mind and help me sleep well at night, " said Lê Văn Thái, a bike repairman on Hồng Lạc Street in HCM City’s Tân Bình District.

Railway breakdowns prompt investigation

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked concerned organisations to investigate two consecutive breakdowns in which a train was derailed twice at Yên Viên Railway Station on the Hà Nội-Lào Cai railway route last Sunday and Monday.

HCM City launches 9th ICT Awards

The HCM City Department of Information and Communications yesterday announced the launch of the 9th Information and Communication Technology Awards.

Đà Nẵng Airport land returned

Over 12.7ha of remediated land at the Đà Nẵng International Airport, part of a major Agent Orange clean-up project, will be returned to the Ministry of Transport under an agreement signed yesterday. 

Ministry backtracks on dumping

The environment ministry has agreed not to dump nearly one million cubic metre of waste mud discarded by a power plant into Bình Thuận Province’s sea following a public outcry against the plan.

HIV-AIDS patients to be covered by health insurance

Hoàng Đình Cảnh, deputy director of the Department of HIV-AIDS Prevention and Control, talks to the newspaper Kinh tế&Đô thị (Economics and Urban Affairs) about the scheme to expand health insurance to cover HIV-AIDS patients.

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