Flood prevention has been one of biggest preoccupations of Ho Chi Minh City authorities. Many projects have been behind schedule, therefore, city needs to quickly complete anti-flood projects.

 Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Investment said Tuesday the city had disbursed only VND9.4 trillion (US$482 million) of the total VND23 trillion allocated for infrastructure pro [ … ]

Skeletons, ghosts, masks and costumes of all kinds are up for sale all over Ho Chi Minh City in anticipation of Halloween on October 31.

Japan will transfer its most advanced technology to help develop new rice varieties in the midland and mountainous areas of northern Viet Nam.

Work on planting a new forest was launched in Phu Tho Province yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Reha [ … ]

Though the flood tide on October 25 was not as high as forecast, thousands of houses and many roads along the Saigon River were flooded.

According to a new draft of the Hanoi master plan submitted by the Ministry of Construction, future state offices would be built in My Dinh area.

Though Hanoi has not calculated the total spending of its 1000th anniversary (October 1-10), the city didn’t spend dozens of trillion dong (hundreds of million US dollars) in the event, senior offici [ … ]

The sight of overhanging cable tangles in most city streets could be thing of the past by 2025 if a project proposal to bury them goes according to schedule.

Hoa Binh (Peace), the most modern park in Hanoi, was inaugurated on October 8 to celebrate the 1,000 year anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.