District and commune-level administrative units to be reduced As many as 20 districts and 539 administrative units at communal and ward levels will be streamlined under a plan of rearrangement of administrative units, said Phan Văn Hùng, head of Local Administration under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA).

HCM City builds new climate-change response plan Improved linkages with international organisations are needed to hasten the progress of HCM City's climate-adaptation action programmes, experts said at a workshop held in HCM City on July 16.

PM asks for push for non-stop toll collection implementation Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has pushed for the implementation of automated non-stop toll collection on all build-operation-transfer (BOT) highways across the country with a deadline of end of the year.

Fuel leak halted blastoff for Indian rocket: reports A fuel leak in the rocket engine forced India to abort the launch of its landmark Moon mission less than one hour before liftoff, media reports said on Tuesday.

EU nominee von der Leyen faces sceptical parliament Was an intense two-week political operation to woo European lawmakers long enough to win German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen the top job in Brussels?

Solar power glut overloads power transmission lines in Ninh Thuận, Bình Thuận Electricity transmission lines, especially in Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận provinces, are being overloaded after a number of renewable power projects began production simultaneously without the requisite strengthening of transmission capacity.

Quảng Ngãi tells investor to complete waste treatment plant by late September The People’s Committee of central Quảng Ngãi Province has instructed North Investment and Development Construction JSC – the investor of the Nghĩa Kỳ waste treatment plant – to complete construction of the plant and put it into operation before September 30.

Equatorial Guinea Presents Open Oil, Gas and Mining Licenses in Successful Roadshow in China Equatorial Guinea Presents Open Oil, Gas and Mining Licenses in Successful Roadshow in China

North Korea says US 'hell-bent' on sanctions despite Trump-Kim meeting North Korea complained on Wednesday after the United States sent a letter urging countries to send back North Korean workers as President Donald Trump was inviting Kim Jong Un to hold talks. 

Banks short of credit growth quota for remaining months of 2019 Though there remains six months, some banks have almost used up the assigned quota for the whole year, and experts said it would be difficult for the banks to get an expansion approval from the State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV).