Representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam Angela Pratt has called on the country to raise tobacco tax and prices, which are still among the world’s lowest.
Many retired employees complain they only receive VND2.5-3 million a month in pensions though they paid social insurance premiums for 30 years of working.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has stressed that the VND120 trillion credit package is not designed to rescue the real estate market, but aims to partly implement the plan on building 1 million social housing apartments.
The project, funded by the United States Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), started in July 2020 with a funding of over 88,000 USD, preserving 500 degraded plates of woodblock at the National Archives Centre IV.