The National Assembly (NA) elected Permanent Member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong as State President of Vietnam at an extraordinary session in Hanoi on March 2.

HCMC – Nearly 51,400 businesses have pulled out of the market in the year to date, up 14.5% year-on-year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Vietnamese authorities are expediting negotiations over new free trade agreements (FTAs) with markets that the country has yet to tap.

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, has renewed its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the HCMC Department of Transport to transform urban mobility across the city.

Commercial flights between Hanoi City and the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau will be launched from April 30, with three weekly flights.

HCMC – Despite the Government’s financial packages, low-income buyers still have difficulty acquiring a social home in HCMC due to red tape.

The United Kingdom (UK) Government has appointed TheCityUK, a financial and related professional services body, to support the HCMC authorities to develop the southern city into a regional financial and business center.

Work began yesterday on a VND8.2-trillion project to rehabilitate the heavily polluted Tham Luong-Ben Cat-Nuoc Len Canal.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has set a target to achieve a disbursement rate of at least 95% of all public investments planned for this year, equivalent to over VND676 trillion.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has told Dong Nai Province and the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to expedite the clearing of the remaining areas to deliver all sites of the first phase of the Long Thanh International Airport project this quarter.