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About half of more than 1,500 outdoor advertisement billboards in HCMC are unlicensed, the municipal Department of Culture and Sports says. At a Monday meeting with the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council on the management of advertisement activities, the department said the city has around 1,515 outdoor billboards. However, …

The Ministry of Transport has proposed the mobilization of VND3,500 billion ($141.3 million) from the state budget to upgrade seven railway stations by 2025, including designating them international. The seven stations are Dong Dang, Lao Cai, Kep, Vat Cach, Kim Lien, Dieu Tri and Song Than. The upgrade will cover …

The governing body of the Mekong River Commission, which has Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam as its members, has approved two major initiatives to better protect the river. At the 29th Meeting of the Mekong River Commission Council held last week in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung …

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened 2.56 million air passengers on Sunday, the highest number since December 2019 and the busiest day since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The number was, however, below the 2.88 million screened on the same day in 2019 at the end …

Vietnam has around 99 million citizens now and is all set to welcome its 100 millionth citizen next year, according to the health ministry. Dr Pham Vu Hoang, deputy general director of the ministry’s Population and Family Planning department, said at a Monday meeting that the 100 millionth citizen was …

Vietnam will target 7% GDP growth, $7,500 per capita GDP, agriculture workforce reduction to less than 20% and trained workforce augmentation to 35-40% by 2030, a Party resolution says. The resolution, signed and promulgated by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during the 6th Plenum of the 13th Central Committee, …

The Mekong River Commission’s governing body has approved two major initiatives to improve regional efforts to monitor and protect the Mekong River. Representatives of MRC member countries Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam approved a Multi-Year Work Plan (MWP) for 2023– 2024 at a meeting in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba …

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed ministers to double defense spending to about 2% of gross domestic product in five years, the defense minister said on Monday, to counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region. A panel of experts advising Kishida this month recommended broad tax measures to pay for …

A 12-year-old boy in northern Vietnam has been publicly praised after pulling an unconscious man from the tracks as a train approached. Hoang Manh Chien, a seventh grader living in Cam Thinh Ward of Cam Pha Town in Quang Ninh Province, was riding a bicycle home from his friend’s at …

A monkey in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District has been terrorizing locals, biting people and evading authorities’ grasp, but is apparently friendly to a woman who frequently feeds it. The monkey, whose species and origin remain unknown, lives among tree branches in an alley of Duy Tan Street. Locals often feed …