On Monday, The Supreme People’s Procuracy charged the former chairman of a support centre for poor people for fraudulent appropriation of assets, saying he and his six accomplices took VNĐ 148 billion (US$ 6.37 million) from more than 1,000 people since 2015.

Architect Hoàng Thúc Hào won the Bùi Xuân Phái Award in the Idea Prize category in 2010. He was the first Vietnamese architect to win SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia in 2016, and also the Vassilis Sgoutas Prize by the International Union of Architects (UIA) in 2017.

HCM City plans to open private lanes for buses on two major streets to speed up operating time and attract bus riders, among other plans to ease traffic congestion, according to the city’s Department of Transport.