HCM City will adopt incentives to encourage the private sector to develop social housing for sale and rent to address the city’s shortage of affordable homes for low-income families and industrial park workers.

For history lovers, few places in Việt Nam can match Huế, the former royal capital, in the central coastal province of Thừa Thiên - Huế.

People, especially low-income earners, from now on can access high-quality vaccine service for themselves or their children by purchasing vaccine packages with zero interest instalment payment.

HCM City plans to cease the construction of high-rise apartment buildings in downtown area while focusing on building apartment complexes along major public transport routes in Districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức.

JupViec.vn, a household service start-up connecting domestic workers and customers via mobile phone apps, has received an undisclosed investment from San Francisco-based investment fund Patamar Capital.

As much as VNĐ20 billion (US$878,000) collected from the auction of the ball and jersey with the autographs of all members of U23 Việt Nam team, the runners-up of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship last January, was presented to 20 poor districts of 12 provinces nationwide in Hà Nội on March 11.

Commercial banks and financial companies are fiercely competing for a slice of the profitable personal-loan market as demand often rises sharply at the end of the Lunar New Year.

The State Bank of Việt Nam (SBV) has decided to set preferential loan interest rate at five per cent for purchase, rent or hire of social housing projects in 2018.

HCM City Real Estate Association has proposed the State Bank of Việt Nam should raise a stimulus package similar to its previous VNĐ30 trillion (US$1.3 billion) preferential home loan package.