It has been eight years since Ly Van Hap, a retired official, made use of his ancestors’ land and opened a wet market for poor vendors on T1 Street in HCM City’s Tan Phu District.

The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve address number chaos in the city.

On Trang Thi Street, dozens of motorbikes and cars stop, wait for a while, look around, hoping against hope that by some miracle a parking space will materialise.

President Tran Dai Quang attended a grand ceremony held in the northern midland province of Phu Tho on April 6 (the 10th day of the third lunar month) to commemorate the death anniversary of Hung Kings - the legendary founders of of the nation.

New diesel vehicles are required to follow Euro 4 emission standards before December 31 this year, according to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

A proposal to build a statue of a turtle beside Ho Guom (the Sword Lake), located in the heart of the capital city, was submitted to the Hanoi People’s Committee at the end of March.

Despite homeowners’ efforts, many garden houses in Dong Nai province need restoration to prevent them from falling into ruin.

Buddhist dignitaries and followers in the Mekong delta city of Can Tho are determined to promote their unity to work for the thriving of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and the stronger national unity bloc.

Thousands of children under the age of five living in Central region drought-hit areas are recovering from malnutrition due to an emergency nutrition intervention programme project.

A finance career workshop was recently held in Paris by VnFinance, a group of Vietnamese experts, researchers and students majoring in finance in France, to promote careers for Vietnamese students in the country.

Some 70 percent of graduates from vocational colleges or schools found jobs with starting salaries from 3.6 million to 7 million VND in 2016.

Hanoi’s 197 Steering Committee (tasked with the implementation of traffic order and safety) has asked the municipal People’s Committee to manage public parking zones on some qualified streets.

A project to promote forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT) in Southeast Asia through the involvement of civil social organisations (CSOs), has been effective, heard a seminar in Hanoi on April 4.

Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum.