HCM City in need of more affordable housing

HCM City is expected to need an additional 160,000 social housing apartments in the next decade to meet its rising population and demand for affordable housing, according to the city’s Department of Construction.

Investment in bottled fruit juice industry surges BUSINESS BEAT

Overseas Vietnamese businesses key to national socio-economic development

HCM City will continue to strengthen connections between overseas Vietnamese business groups and associations, especially those in the EU, and domestic enterprises in an effort to promote trade and investment, speakers said Tuesday at a meeting in the city.

Objects of play admired over centuries

Traditional toys still popular among Việt Nam's young when festival time comes around

Book on Vietnamese sea, islands published in Japan The book entitled Hoàng Sa - Trường Sa: Luận Cứ và Sự Kiện (Spratly - Paracel: Evidence and Events) was translated by Professor Kazutaka Hashimoto into Japanese from Vietnamese the version by researcher Đinh Kim Phúc.

Real estate companies lose trillions of đồng due to COVID-19 Reduction in share prices of many real estate businesses due to the novel coronavirus (COVID -19) outbreak has made those firms lose thousands of billion đồng in their market capitalisation value.

Disciplinary measures imposed on HCM City’s former leaders

The Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on Friday issued a reprimand to the Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee in the 2010-15 tenure for violations.

Association calls for rate cuts, improved legal framework for new property products The Việt Nam Real Estate Association has proposed the Government develop measures with a focus on credit and tax support, together with improving the legal framework for new property products so as to aid the property market to overcome this difficult period.

Commission proposes discipline against former leaders of HCM City The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission held the 43rd session in Hà Nội this week proposing the Standing Board of the HCM City Party Committee in the 2010-15 tenure be disciplined for violations.

Death penalty upheld for large-scale drug ring Hà Nội’s High-Level People’s Court has upheld the death sentence handed down to the ringleader and nine other members of a large-scale inter-provincial drug smuggling ring at an appeal trial in Hà Nội on Tuesday.