Faced with a massive flood clean-up effort, the central province of Thanh Hóa is looking to the Government for disaster assistance.

Being a newcomer does not mean Bình Phước will forever be “a follower” in terms of economic development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told an investment promotion conference held in the province on Monday.

Sacombank and Becamex Bình Phước Infrastructure Development JSC on Monday signed an agreement under which Sacombank will provide credit to Becamex Bình Phước for construction of the Becamex - Bình Phước Industrial and Residential Complex project.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment made the warning during its recent report consulting the Government on Official Development Assistance (ODA) that Việt Nam needed to carefully consider whether to borrow from ODA loans in the future

Việt Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình told the Ethnic Minority Development Forum in central Quảng Nam Province on Monday.

The Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh plans to increase the production values of the agro-forestry-fishery sector by more than 4 per cent by 2020, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

Nguyễn Trí Hiếu, an expert in banking, speaks to the Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper that the Vietnamese Government should appoint an agency to develop an official transaction floor for buying and selling debts.

With space limited in downtown Hà Nội, parking spaces are at a premium. So difficult it is to find a place to park cars and motorbikes, it seems any spare piece of land, on sidewalks and even in the yards of state agencies, is used as an illegal lot.

President Trần Đại Quang has urged authorities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to focus on improving the quality of infrastructure planning for socio-economic and urban development.