Land
Vietnam seeks fair and transparent land reform
Vietnam is reforming land policies to balance economic growth with social needs. Removal of fixed government land price caused sharp increases in many provinces, hurting affordability. To curb speculation, draft laws propose taxing profits from real estate sales. The government is accelerating digital land databases, ...
Social housing: Out of expectation
Developing social housing is a well-directed policy to help address the housing needs of citizens, particularly low-income earners. Implementation, however, has exposed various shortcomings, particularly in terms of land allocation and funding.A report has been prepared by the National Assembly (NA)’s specialized supervision delegation on ...
Thanh Xuân
MONRE identifies seven key difficulties in implementing Land Law
After three months of putting the Land Law and its accompanying guidelines into practice, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) has identified seven challenges facing the implementation of the Land Law.To begin with, the adjustment of the early effective date for the Land ...
Translated by Anh Quan
Businesses using forest environmental services to pay fee under a new decree
Businesses involved in eco-tourism that use forest environmental services will have to pay fees for these services under the latest decree, which took effect on July 18. The update was announced on Wednesday during a conference on the Government’s Decree No. 91/2024/NĐ-CP. The decree provides ...
New Land Law important to national development: experts
The revised Land Law, which was passed at the 15th National Assembly’s fifth extraordinary session, holds great significance in the country’s political, socioeconomic life and national defence and security as well as has impacts on people from all walks of life and the business community.The ...
Vietnam shaping national land database
The building of the national land database has achieved certain results, but still lags behind schedule, reported the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. The activity aims to serve the State management, providing public services related to land, and sharing land information with ministries, agencies, ...
Ministries to remove land policies for agricultural tourism development
The development of tourism agriculture is a policy to promote OCOP (One Commune, One Product) and on-farm products, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam stated in a media interview with the Sai Gon Giai Phong Newspaper.The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ...
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Poverty alleviation undertaken in southern ethnic minority areas
Efforts to enable poverty reduction in the southern region are to be pushed ahead in the coming time to help better the lives of ethnic minority groups in the area.Though the south has fared better than other regions nationwide, including the northern mountainous, central and ...
OP-ED: Central Highlands development: Sustainable livelihoods to ward off instability risks
The Central Highlands, home to nearly 6 million people, needs thorough solutions to issues related to land use, agro-forestry-fisheries development, and ecological environment protection in order to deal with risks of instability in security and order.According to Secretary of the Party Committee of Dak Lak ...
Land should be valued close to market prices: officials
Land valuation has been considered a major bottleneck in Vietnam’s socio-economic development, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said while chairing a meeting on August 7 discussing amendments and supplements to a government decree on land valuation.In a report by the Ministry of Natural Resources ...
