Nguyen Bich Lam, director general of the General Department of Statistics, talks to Việt Nam News Agency about measures to improve labour productivity.

On an area of 10 square metres in a narrow alley on Sai Gon riverbank is a special classroom which has operated for more than 20 years making literary dreams come true for many underprivileged children in the city.

Since August last year, an old house in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung District has been a familiar destination for students, children and even retirees living near and far.

Vietnam and Australia on August 23 agreed to raise bilateral trade from nearly 7.8 billion USD in 2018 to 10 billion USD next year.

Vietnam’s head coach Park Hang-seo announced the list of 27 players for the U22 national team to prepare for the friendly against U22 China to be held in China on September 8.

Park Hang-seo on Thursday announced his preliminary national team squad for the 2022 World Cup qualifier with Thailand next month.

Vietnamese athlete Vu Thi Trang was knocked out of the World Badminton Championship on Thursday in Belgium.

Three to four storms are forecast to affect Việt Nam’s mainland, mostly in the central and southern regions, from now to the end of this year, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Metrological Forecasting.

According to a new draft circular that the transport ministry is working on, the public will have a say on whether the locations of toll stations on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) roads are appropriate.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc welcomed and held talks with his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison in Hanoi on August 23.

The United States Department of State said on August 22 that it is deeply concerned about China’s interference in Vietnam’s longstanding oil and gas activities in Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) claim.

Vietnamese farmers have many opportunities to work abroad as Asian markets have growing demand for agricultural labourers.

Da Nang city to boost cashless transactions

The Viet Nam Railway Corporation (VNR) said it needs VND2.5 trillion (US$108 million) to build fences, frontage roads, and eliminate illegal level crossings by 2025, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

Vietnam has demanded China to immediately stop violations, withdraw all vessels from Vietnam’s EEZ and not have actions to increase tensions, complicate the situation, and threaten peace, stability and security in the East Sea and the region.

Loss-making, low-profitability State-owned agriculture firms should be dissolved and made bankrupt, said Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue on August 21.

Vietnam and Cambodia have signed the Minutes of Agreement on cooperative contents and programs in 28 sectors.

Danang real estate market sees upbeat developments

Many long-haul truck drivers have been found parking their vehicles and sleeping along the HCM City-Trung Luong Expressway, causing traffic disorder and posing a risk of traffic accidents.

A 30-metre section of Highway No 91 in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang fell into the Hau River on Tuesday after the soil underneath it eroded.