Local authorities need to learn more about the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty and offer solutions to reduce the poverty rate in HCM City, Vo Thi Dung, deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee, said at a workshop on sustainable poverty reduction held on May 22.

Nearly 6,000 civil servants and public employees had failed to complete their tasks in 2018, according to a report by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Capital divestment from State-owned enterprises (SOEs) had slowed and was still facing difficulties, said Dang Quyet Tien, Director of the Corporate Finance Department under the Ministry of Finance.

A delegation of business executives representing 30 Indian companies led by the chairman of the Indian Silk Export Promotion Council met their Vietnamese counterparts at the Buyer-Seller meet held in HCM City on May 21.

Vietnam's interbank e-payment system handled 37 million transactions worth nearly VND21 quadrillion (US$898.4 billion) in the first quarter of the year, up 23 per cent and 17.8 per cent respectively compared to 2018, according to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV).

The Ministry of Transport has urged stronger efforts to finish land clearance for the ongoing Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway project, which has been delayed because of several problems.

A short documentary on how to unleash the potential of sustainable tourism of Quang Nam province’s Thu Bon river after the historic flood in 2000 has brought a special prize to two secondary school students in the “School Ambassador in Disaster Prevention and Climate Change Adaptation” Competition 2019.

Vietnam needed to build a legal framework to promote the development of over-the-top (OTT) media services as the Government strives to build a digital economy and accelerate digital transformation, experts have said.

Electricity retail prices should have been raised by 9.26 percent instead of 8.36 percent if Vietnam Electricity (EVN) had correctly calculated the 3.26 trillion VND foreign exchange rate difference in 2018 into its power production costs.

Talented pianists from three years old and above have been invited to take part in the first “International Piano Competition – Your Road to Carnegie Hall in Vietnam”.