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A symposium on the development of domestically- and globally-connected smart cities took place in Hanoi on June 16.

The Indonesia Railway Development Consortium (IRDC) is planning to build a railroad at a cost of 28 trillion Rp (1.98 billion USD) connecting Laos with Vietnam.

The Government Inspectorate has delivered its report on the controversial implementation of the master plan and land and construction management at the Thu Thiem New Urban Area in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 2.

The Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in the central province of Quang Ngai has attracted 17 projects worth a total 383 million USD since it commenced construction in 2013.

Hanoi should finalise regulations on construction management to eliminate overlapping responsibilities between agencies, and also to clarify inspection duties to better deter construction violations, experts have said.

A training conference for the project “Strengthening capacity of cost estimation, contract management, quality and safety of construction works” opened in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on June 23.