Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference on August 1 to discuss measures to expand social housing facilities for workers and low-income earners.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will help build an additional 100 flood-resistant houses for poor households in the north-central coastal province of Thanh Hoa in the coming time, said UN Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Kanni Wignaraja.

VOV.VN - A delegation of the National Assembly’s Committee for National Defence and Security paid a working visit to the United States and the United Nations from July 26 to July 30.

VOV.VN - Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue held a reception for visiting Takebe Tsutomu, Special Advisor to the Japan - Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance (JVFPA) in Hanoi on July 29.

So far, more than 138,300 labourers in Ho Chi Minh City have received housing rent support under the Prime Minister’s decision, according to the municipal Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

“Son, Goal!“, the first manga series about Vietnamese football produced by a Japanese publisher, made debut in Vietnam on July 28.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 23 extended his congratulations to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on the occasion of Egypt’s 70th National Day (July 23).

Construction of a house for preserving remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers who had laid down their lives during wartime in Cambodia started in the Cambodian province of Battambang on July 13.

Ho Chi Minh City expects to build about 35,000 social housing units with 2.5 million square metres of floor space in 2021-2025, and nearly 58,000 units with a floor space of 4.08 million square metres by 2030.

VOV.VN - Colombian artist Elkin Robinson is set to perform at the Hanoi Opera House on July 20 in order to mark the 43rd anniversary of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Colombia this year.