To achieve smart-city status, at least 90 per cent of residents in HCM City should be using a smartphone by 2022, a top official said at a communications conference held in the city on July 16.

Vietnam is ranked 52nd out of 162 countries and territories in terms of sustainable development, according to a new report by German’s Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations.

The southern province of Binh Duong has proposed the Government allow it to keep some of the money gained from the equitisation of local State-owned enterprises to fund the development of housing for low-income earners, including workers at industrial parks.

So far this year, the northern province of Ninh Binh has mobilized more than 2.28 trillion VND (98.13 million USD) to build its new-style rural areas.

The number of newly built schools in Hanoi in 2008-2018 was 37 percent higher than planned, but the capital city is still lacking schools.

The People's Committee of Vung Tau city has adjusted a master plan for the city that was initially approved by the Prime Minister in May.

Three years after a five-year plan to renovate half of the 476 old tenements was announced by Ho Chi Minh City’s authorities, only a fraction of them have been refurbished or rebuilt, causing suffering to many people living in them

The northeastern coastal province of Quang Ninh has completed land clearance for the construction of Van Don – Mong Cai highway, a local official has said.

Experience of Japan in developing public transport network was shared at a workshop in Hanoi on July 10.

The prospects of cement enterprises in the second half of the year will continue to improve, especially during the construction season at the end of the year, according to Chairman of the Vietnam Cement Association (VNCA) Nguyen Quang Cung.