The HCMC People’s Council yesterday, July 7, passed a resolution to reduce the seaport fees for goods transported on waterways. The fees have been collected for over three months.

The Immigration Office in HCMC has recently been overwhelmed as there are an average of 1,500 daily requests for new passports.

Capital reallocation plans announced by multinational corporations will offer opportunities for Vietnam to attract foreign direct investment, experts said.

The growth target of 6.5 percent set for 2022 is likely to pose a big challenge to Vietnam given difficulties in production and business at home and global uncertainties, head of the General Statistics Office Nguyen Thi Huong has said.

The number of workers with jobs in Q2 in 2022 increased compared to Q1 and Q2 in 2021, with the number of workers in the service sector increasing considerably year on year. Their average income also rose.

Local health agencies have been asked to join medical facilities to monitor and collect SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic specimens and send them to Centers for Disease Control for gene sequencing.

With billions of US dollars worth of high-quality investment committed, Vietnam is set to elevate itself to value chains, becoming a key manufacturing hub in the region.

Medical workers are giving up their jobs with income of VND4 million (US$180) a month to become Grab taxi motorbike drivers which allows them to earn VND400,000 ($18) a day.

Vietnam and Cambodia have a labour cooperation agreement to ensure legal protection for each other's workers, however, it seems many Vietnamese workers are being swindled to work in Cambodia in terrible conditions.

The stock market is still fluctuating, the VN-Index since 2018 has been around 1,200 points. Vietnam's stock market desperately needs support to be upgraded in the near future, which can attract billions of dollars,

We had the opportunity to go to Hai Tien Beach in the central province of Thanh Hoa and were amazed by the beautiful Hai Tien beach.

Nearly 50 percent of women who suffer from postpartum depression are not diagnosed by medical experts, but all women could suffer from postpartum depression, health experts warn.

Vietnam jumped four places to rank 56th globally, according to the Global Real Estate Transparency Index by JLL and LaSalle Investment Management, amid improving building standards across Asia.

National high school graduation exam concludes

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh cabled a message of condolences to President of the Liberal Democratic Party and PM of Japan Kishida Fumio over the death of former PM Abe Shinzo on July 8.

Thanh Hoa proposes building new terminal at Tho Xuan airport

The US Dollar Index (DXY) at 9.15 pm on July 5 (Vietnam time) surged to 106.5 points, a 20-year high in the history of the greenback. The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has begun taking action.

HCM City is facing three major medical problems, its top healthcare official has said: having to ward off COVID and dengue fever simultaneously, shortage of medicines and equipment and shortage of public medical staff.

The tourism sector of HCMC has encouraged districts throughout the city to create their own unique tourism products and build tours visiting popular local attractions in response to the tourist program themed “Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City”.

Miss Grand International 2021, Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, is planning to travel to Angola in mid-July to launch the project to provide fresh water to local people.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) is planning to upgrade Cam Ranh International Airport in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa at a cost of 24.31 trillion VND (1.04 billion USD) during the 2021-2030 period.

Vietnam's two largest cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh are facing new outbreaks of the Covid-19 pandemic following the detection of Omicron subvariant BA.5 and the slow pace of vaccination.

Vietnam will send a contingent of 122 athletes to the 11th ASEAN Para Games in Surakarta, Indonesia, later this month.

Alcohol use is increasing at an alarming rate in Vietnam, especially among young people, according to a conference held by the Ministry of Information and Communication in collaboration with the HealthBridge Organisation on July 5-6.

Nguyen Toan Thang, Director of the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment, has confirmed that HCM City will terminate contracts with the two companies as they have not made payments for the land plots in Thu Thiem.