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.

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.  

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

 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).

 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.

 Law enforcement representatives from Vietnamese and Cambodian localities sharing the borderline met in the first judicial conference in Vietnam’s southern province of Tay Ninh on August 29.

President Tran Dai Quang hailed Austria’s outgoing Ambassador to Vietnam Thomas Loidl for his efforts to step up bilateral ties and introduce many Austrian businesses to Vietnam during his reception for the diplomat in Hanoi on August 29.

 Japan will continue working closely with Vietnam to effectively conduct projects funded by Japan’s ODA, especially in high-quality workforce development and administrative reform, said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. 

 Up to 1,468 out of 2,112 dengue fever hotbeds have been put under control in the capital city of Hanoi. 

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated that the Vietnamese Government always provides all possible conditions for foreign investors, including those from the Republic of Korea, when hosting former Governor of the RoK’s Osan city Park Shin Won on August 29.