The Party chief’s visit is significant after the National Assembly approved a resolution on February 19 to pilot mechanisms for Ho Chi Minh City’s urban railway development.

The road construction project is in line with the city's general planning guidelines and ensures connectivity with existing transportation networks outlined in approved planning schemes.

The line is expected to boost socio-economic growth along the Lao Cai-Hanoi-Haiphong corridor, improve national and international rail links, and support industrialization and modernization.

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Vietnam`s Ho Chi Minh City has decided to invest nearly 360 million U.S. dollars in building a 3.4-km bridge, replacing an overloaded ferry and helping foster tourism, the municipal authorities said Tuesday.

The four-day Vietnam International Furniture and Home Accessories Fair will begin on March 8, with the presence of 100 foreign brands, its organizers said Thursday.

Vietnam`s General Statistics Office (GSO) on Wednesday kicked off a nationwide economic survey to evaluate the performance of economic and administrative units from local to central levels.

As many as 14,451 enterprises have been established in Vietnam in the first two months of 2017, up 3.9 percent year-on-year, said the General Statistics Office (GSO) on Wednesday.

Vietnam plans to invest in its transport infrastructure comprehensively while linking development strategies among sectors in order to develop a multi-modal transport environment, making the country the gateway connecting Southeast Asia to the Indian Ocean.

Vietnam started the construction of two flyovers here aimed at helping reducing traffic congestion at the entrance of Tan Son Nhat international airport.

After a brief hiatus for Tet festival, construction work on the railway resumed on February 2 that Cat Linh – Ha Dong elevated urban railway in Hanoi will begin its test run, expected to last between three and six months, on October 1.

Service fees at residential buildings in Hanoi, ranging from 700 VND (3 US cents) to 16,500 VND (72 cents) per square metre, under the capital’s newly-issued decision are thought to be unrealistic.

Speaking at the Ministry of Construction’s conference on January 6, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung asked for closer monitoring of the implementation of urban planning to thoroughly address traffic congestion in HCM City and Hanoi.

Many concerns about the decision of Hanoi People’s Committee on approving a construction project of hotel at 22 - 32 Le Thai To, Hoan Kiem district, indeed, time gone by, city architecture always faces changes, could not persist the old insight.

On December 26 morning, Chairman of Hanoi People`s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has formally launched O Dong Mac – Nguyen Khoai traffic intersections flyover to be opened to traffic.

The Electricity of Vietnam organised a ceremony to inaugurate the Lai Chau hydropower plant in the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau on December 20, completing the project one year earlier than the schedule set by the National Assembly.

Making his speech at a meeting on the social housing development in Hanoi on December 7, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highly appreciated the achievements of Hanoi in developing social housing projects for workers.

More than 420 enterprises operating in the construction, real estate and interior-exterior decoration industries will showcase products at the 3rd Vietbuild Hanoi International Expo 2016, that will kick off from November 16 to 20.

KTĐT - Lasting through terms to terms, even over 3 amendments of the Law of the Land but many projects still remain sluggish. It is not because of resources or a lack of money but because of the too slow land clearance. Therefore, the Resolution No. 08 of the City Party Committee just issued in order to raise the effectiveness and efficiency of the compensation, support and resettlement when the State recovers the land in the city during the period of 2016-2020 and the next years is expected to make a strong breakthrough in this work.

Hanoi held a groundbreaking ceremony of construction on extending Ring Road 3 that runs from Mai Dich intersection in Cau Giay district to Km5+500 on Thang Long bridge on October 5.

KTĐT - Similar to Ha Bac (former), Ha Nam in the North and the South of a river, Hanoi is in the middle or inner of rivers. There are 9 big and small rivers flowing through Hanoi, including Red River, Da River, Duong River, Ca Lo River, Cau River, To Lich River, Nhue River, Day River and Tich River. However, the Red River is the main river because it flows along Hanoi, with two tributaries flowing to the river, including Da River and Lo River. The remaining rivers take water from the Red River and flow in the North-South directions and then finally flow to the Red River at the downstream. When mentioning about Hanoi land and water, it means re-telling the story of Red River and Hanoi City.

The eastern North – South highway, running from Phap Van road in Hanoi to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, will be completed in 2020 at the latest, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung requested at a meeting in Hanoi on July 7.

The Ministry of Construction held a ceremony in Hanoi on July 7 to launch a technical assistance project for establishing Vietnam’s green city master plan, funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).