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With the deadline for disbursement just over a month away, Ho Chi Minh City has only spent 0.06 percent of its allocated budget for subsidizing workers’ rents. The city has earmarked VND2.1 trillion ($89.67 million) for the period from April 1 to August 15, but has so far only disbursed …

Dao Hong Lan, Party chief of the northern Bac Ninh Province, has been appointed acting minister of health over a month after the former one was arrested. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh announced the appointment Friday at the ministry’s office in Hanoi. Lan, 51, is a native of the northern …

There has been an explosion in the number of beauty pageants, with nearly 20 of them held in the first half of this year alone. Mostly organized by industry groups and entertainment companies, they included Miss Universe Vietnam in June and Miss Ethnic Vietnam, Miss Ao Dai Vietnam and Miss …