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The northern province of Hai Duong recently launched its Local Government Service Platform (LGSP) and public services portal.

The northern province of Vinh Phuc has showed active performance in applying information and communication technology in building e-government with fruitful results.

Local governments have become more transparent with how they spend public money, but more needs to be done, according to a report.

The Ho Chi Minh City housing market is expected to recover again after being flat for over one year with support from the local government.

Vietnam and Laos exchanged experience in local government activities during a workshop held in Hanoi on March 5.

Philippine government officials and employees will no longer be allowed to travel abroad during disasters and emergencies such as typhoons from 2019, according to the Philippine Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).

The Malaysian Government is planning to build one million units of affordable homes within the next 10 years as part of its efforts to help more people, especially low-income earners, to own homes.

The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam has approved piloting a new urban administration model in Hanoi that allows for the dissolution of local government bodies.

Ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its dialogue partners, namely China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, have called for closer regional cooperation to combat terrorism and violent extremism.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue held working sessions with some Australian officials on July 24 to seek measures to further foster partnership between the two countries.

The People’s Committee of Thua Thien- Hue province decided to move the grave of the bulldozed king wife’s tomb, augmenting the conflict between local government and the royal family committee.

Vietnam is targeting keeping public debt, comprising central government debt, government-backed loans, and local government debt, below 65 percent of GDP between 2016 and 2018.

Until the end of 2015, Government debts acounted for 80.8 percent of Vietnam's public debt until the ends of 2015.

Rodrigo Duterte, a candidate of the PDP-Laban political party, is taking an early lead in the presidential election in the Philippines, according to the local media’s unofficial statistics.