The Government has proposed borrowing VND459.5 trillion (US$19.9 billion) next year to make up for the State budget deficit, increasing regular expenditures and social insurance debts.

The HCMC government has urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to cease issuing new licenses for the exploitation and use of groundwater throughout the city, due to increased water pollution and land subsidence.

Pham Nhat Vu, former chairman of private pay TV firm Audio Visual Global JSC (AVG), will not have to bear all liability for MobiFone’s losses in the MobiFone-AVG deal.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-supported business model makes both ‘social’ and business sense.

The Ministry of Transport plans to develop 16 new metro line projects in HCMC and Hanoi, though the existing five projects are facing cost overruns and slow execution.

The HCM City Department of Construction will work with local districts and agencies to create a construction order management team to address the increasing number of violations.

The purchase of the boats partly show the both sides` efforts to tighten military ties agreed upon the 2011 Memorandum of Understanding on defense cooperation.

Authorities in Da Nang have ordered Dien Bien Construction Private Company No 1 to dismantle a part of Muong Thanh Group’s luxury apartment building in Ngu Hanh Son District, which was built illegally.

The Vietnam Fine Arts Association's conference will take place on December 15. This is a chance for artists, researchers and critics to review its performance in 2014 - 2019.

The guarantee of foreign investors` rights is a key to the investors as regulations had been changed frequently, making it harder for them to invest in Vietnamese assets, according to an expert.

A national communication campaign for HIV/AIDS prevention, called K=K – (Không phát hiện = Không lây truyền) or U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable), was launched at a ceremony on Tuesday at the Bach Mai General Hospital in Hanoi.

US’s Friendship Force of Florida visits Vietnam

University filing lawsuit against its scholarship winners

A 33-year-old mother in Tan Ky District of the central province of Nghe An naturally gave birth to a baby girl weighing 5.5kg yesterday.

A private movie studio has opened in HCM City’s Binh Chanh District after three years of construction.

After 10 months since compulsory social insurance collection applied, as many as 62,000 foreign labourers have joined social insurance in Vietnam.

Referees from Singapore will take charge of two key matches in the V.League’s last round this week.

The owners pledged to comply with regulations on prohibited commercial activities within a minimum distance of 1.5 m from the railway, as well as to draw safety lines and install stainless steel bars on the front of each store and house.

Two women died last week in HCM City after undergoing plastic surgery.

During the first phase of the construction, the work items include a runway, a passenger terminal with handling capacity up to 25 million people and a cargo terminal for 1.2 million tons of goods annually.