The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment said the city is stepping up financial support for garbage collection businesses that need funding to convert rudimentary vehicles into modern ones.

Đà Nẵng City plans to realise a number of major infrastructure projects including building a bridge across the Hàn River and building tunnels through the airport, said the municipal people’s committee.

Residents said that their gardens, ponds and rice fields are being buried, although where they live is outside the clearance boundary of the road project.

Deputy Prime Minister Trần Hồng Hà urged Hà Nội and HCM City to expedite the opening of the elevated sections of the Nhổn-Hà Nội Station and Bến Thành-Suối Tiên metro lines ahead of schedule.

Two social housing projects with 50,831 square metres of floor space were completed in HCM City in the first half of the year, according to a report by the city Department of Construction.

The southern province of Bình Dương has issued a plan to develop industrial, urban, service and logistics belts along Ring Road No. 4.

The 2024 Land Law, to take effect from August 1, is hoped to bring about investment waves in relevant sectors such as real estate, requiring stakeholders to make good preparations, experts stated at a conference in HCM City on July 17.

Construction of pedestrian overpasses to nine stations on metro line No. 1 is being speeded up to ensure completion by September, according to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR).

During an inspection of the Cần Thơ-Cà Mau Expressway Project earlier this week, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính directed local authorities to resolve all remaining land clearance issues and hand over the land to contractors by July.

Vingroup and Techcombank have proposed a new social housing credit package with a fixed 4.8 per cent interest rate for the first five years, a 30-year loan term and loans covering up to 100 per cent of the purchase price.