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Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee Phan Van Mai speaks at the conference. At the conference, the proposal of handling difficulties for anti-flooding projects, including anti-flooding projects due to high tides is a target of voters of Nha Be District. Meanwhile, voters of District 7 had opinions about housing, real estate and construction issues, especially the usage of 28-hectare public land for public works for residents; handling the granting of land use rights, ownership of the house and other properties associated with land for over 50,000 apartments, prioritizing the implementation of the Nguyen Khoai bridge and road project. Through meeting with voters of two districts, the central agencies also said that it is urgent to amend the Land Law 2013. A voter of Nha Be District gives opinion at the conference. Regarding the housing issue, Chairman Phan Van Mai affirmed that HCMC will focus on deploying additional accommodations for workers. After listening to … [Read more...] about City to build 35,000 more commercial houses, 28,000 accommodations for workers

While there are many young workers in cities who are working hard to own a house, there are also some people who have decided to give up this dream for certain reasons. Giving up a mental burden Huynh Anh Tuan, a city dweller of Phu Huu District in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City, who suffered from a sharp drop in income during the COVID -19 pandemic, decided not to pursue his dream of owning a home. When he gave up on the plan, he felt relaxed after the great pressure was gone. Tuan set a goal many years ago to own his own home before he turned 30. To that end, Tuan took on many freelance jobs after graduating from college and invested a small amount in stocks. In addition, an acquaintance promised to lend him VND500 million ($21,650) if he bought a house, which fueled his strategy over time, at least before the pandemic. Although he had such an ambitious plan, now, at the age of 28, Huynh Anh Tuan is changing his mind because of COVID -19. As a freelancer, Tuan has … [Read more...] about “To buy or not to buy a house” an important question

Low-income housing projects will be prioritised in major cities, particularly Hanoi and HCM City. Real estate giant Vinhomes has announced plans to build 500,000 social housing apartments priced below VND1 billion across the country over the next five year. In August this year, the firm will start its first project. Low-income housing projects will be prioritised in major cities, particularly Hanoi and HCM City Housing and Urban Development Corporation has recently started work on a social housing project in the northern province of Hanoi to offer 564 apartments priced at just VND380 million (USD16,521) each. Thanh Hoa provincial authorities have approved a low-income housing project in Thanh Hoa City which will provide up to 2,400 apartments. Meanwhile, Ninh Binh Province has agreed on a project to build 2,153 apartments at Gian Khau Industrial Park and neighbouring areas. Four low-income housing projects in the country were completed in the first … [Read more...] about More low-income housing projects to be carried out

Le Thi Bao Tran, a young white-collar worker in Ho Chi Minh City, has spent the past eight years moving between rented rooms, doing her best to save up enough money to purchase a home of her own. Like other young, white-collar workers who have moved to Ho Chi Minh City to pursue their careers, Tran hopes to eventually purchase a home in the city, but the rising cost of real estate has kept that dream out of reach. A lifelong dream Tran spent her college years moving between rental apartments in Binh Thanh District. At one point, she shared a tiny 10-square-meter apartment with a friend for just VND1.1 million ($47) per month, including utilities. During the dry season, the apartment would heat up like an oven, and the putrid smell from a nearby garbage dump would waft through the windows. "If you closed the door, you could hardly breathe. If you opened the door, you still couldn’t breathe because of the horrible smell," she shared. Things were not much better in the … [Read more...] about Young Vietnamese turn to mortgages, installment plans to secure dream homes

Trucks arrive at Cat Lai port (Photo: SGGP) Director of the USAID-funded Trade Facilitation Project Claudio Dordi revealed that according to a survey of the current state of Cat Lai port operations conducted by USAID, four main difficulties have been threatening the stability and port performance including traffic congestion around the port, overload of administrative procedures, incomplete information technology infrastructure. Additionally, he said the city’s canal system is not capable of receiving a container ship capacity of over 3,000 TEUs. Many businesses also said that the clearance time at Cat Lai port has improved, but compared to other ports in the region, it takes 6.37 days to clear the shipment. As international trade recovers from the impacts of Covid-19, addressing congestion at Cat Lai Port has become a priority. However, this is difficult to improve because the volume of containers passing through Cat Lai port is about 6 million TEU (in 20-foot containers) each … [Read more...] about Action plan to be implemented to reduce congestion at Cat Lai port

The tickets will be valid until late this month. The bus tours which run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily take visitors through tourist attractions including St. Joseph's Cathedral, Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Tran Quoc Pagoda, Hoa Lo Prison, the Temple of Literature and the Opera House. The buses will depart every hour from Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square near the Hoan Kiem pedestrian zone. Hanoi opened double-decker bus tour in May 2018 with ticket prices ranging from VND196,000 ($8.48) to VND650,000 ($28). The free tours are being offered as Vietnamese authorities try to take advantage of the country hosting Southeast Asia’s largest sports event to boost its tourism image and attract more foreign tourists in the post pandemic new normal scenario. The central province of Quang Binh is offereing free tours to Son Doong, the world's largest cave, to two most outstanding athletes at this year’s SEA Games. The 31st SEA Games, a biennial regional multi-sports … [Read more...] about SEA Games athletes offered free rides on Hanoi double decker buses