Việt Nam News

HCM City has decided to shorten the process of licensing social housing projects from 500 days to 133 if developers use private lands and 217 days if they use unencumbered public land they have to bid for.

There are additional 637 new COVID-19 infections recorded across Việt Nam on Monday with no deaths.

The People’s Court of Hà Nội on Monday morning started an appellate trial for 19 defendants and related parties involved in violations at the Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway project.

In recent years, Hà Nội's agriculture sector has created favourable conditions for organisations and individuals to develop the farm economy. 

Despite his car and well-to-do looks, he grew up on these streets, doing what he had to do to survive.  

The Ministry of Health has issued its latest guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN), the Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC), the Việt Nam Infrastructure Development and Finance Investment Joint Stock Company (VIDIFI), and other service providers to realise the Prime Minister's request on completing automatic non-stop toll collection (ETC).

An expressway system connecting the southeast region, including HCM City, and the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, is expected to be completed by 2030.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam continued to fall on Sunday, with 557 new cases and zero deaths recorded.

Dive tourism in the Hòn Mun Marine Protected Area has been suspended from Monday to re-survey the coral reef and marine ecosystem for conservation, said Huỳnh Bình Thái, head of the Nha Trang Bay Management Board.

The committee in support of Trần Tố Nga, the Vietnamese woman who sued US firms for manufacturing the toxic AO defoliant used by US forces during the war in Việt Nam on June 24 (local time) offered a charitable meal in Paris to raise fund for her lawsuit.

The Thai government has approved expediting negotiations to open a bus route connecting three countries via route R12 from Nakhon Phanom, Thailand to Thakhek, Laos and on to the central province of Hà Tĩnh in Việt Nam.

Digital transformation has become a critical need for technical infrastructure companies to recover quickly, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, a seminar heard in HCM City last week.

UNWTO's Destination Tracker tool showed that 52 countries have fully reopened their borders to foreign tourists as of June 17 and Việt Nam is one of only four in the Asia-Pacific, said Harry Hwang, executive director of the Asia-Pacific region for UNWTO.

Việt Nam registered 657 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, with zero deaths recorded.

As inflation rises, the number of workers who turn to free meal stalls and goodwill restaurants for cheaper meals also increases. But the sustaining of these models is facing many difficulties.