For the last five years, 600 young cadres have been appointed vice chairmen of communal People’s Committees at 64 poor districts across the country. 

 Interest rates are high whilst lending procedures complicated. Port infrastructure is degrading. Fishing vessels that were new just a few years ago are now broken and unusable.

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the budget for grassroots healthcare from 2016-20, a programme that includes funding for constructing health facilities, supporting traditional medicine, and providing healthcare in remote areas.

Well-known conductor Le Phi Phi returns to Hanoi to conduct VietNamNet online newspaper's annual concert "Dieu Con Mai" (Things Everlasting) in celebration of National Day on September 2. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Ha Tinh’s people once put high hopes on many huge steel projects in their province but most of them have been closed. 

The People’s Committee of Hanoi has presented the title of “For the Course of Capital Construction” to two Frenchmen for their contributions to the capital’s development.  

 Original photos and videos featuring the wonderful landscapes of Vietnam and interesting life stories of its inhabitants are on display at a new exhibition in Hanoi.

HCM City wants to get support from UNDP in programmes on public administrative reform, climate change adaption, flood prevention, and start-up development.

 Vietnamese U22 football player Nguyen Cong Phuong finished as joint top goal scorer of the men’s football tournament with four goals at the ongoing Southeast Asia (SEA) Games 29 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 406 SOEs approved for divestment in 2017-2020

 Artworks inspired by the beauty of feminity are on display at an exhibition in Hanoi.

 United Nations (UN) peacekeeping activities should be reformed to adapt to arising security challenges, said Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN.

ASEAN and China will organise the 22nd meeting of their Joint Working Group on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) in the Philippines on August 30.

 Tourism construction on Son Tra Peninsula could come to a dramatic halt, after the Da Nang People’s Committee met on August 28 with the city’s tourism association to discuss the Son Tra Tourism Area Development Master Plan.

Tan Vu-Lach Huyen Highway in Hai Phong, which includes the country’s longest cross-sea bridge, will be opened to traffic on National Day (September 2).

Kites of every composition and description have graced the skies of cities around the globe, elevating themselves and the spirits of the people flying them for thousands of years.

 The Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) will need more capital to further benefit from the National Assembly’s recent resolution on the settlement of non-performing loans (NPLs), experts said.

 Bolstering intellectual property (IP) rights enforcement, including computer software, is high on the Government’s agenda, as part of its efforts to uphold international IP rights commitments it has made.

Health experts from 54 countries and international organisations gathered at a conference in Da Nang on August 29 to strengthen cooperation and share approaches to prevent animal-to-human transmission diseases, including bird flu, Ebola and rabies.

 Plans and measures to implement the Paris Agreement on climate change in the northern part of Vietnam were the focus of a conference held in Hanoi on August 29.