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Northern Thai Nguyen province has adjusted and supplemented its Housing Development Plan in 2022. It will now implement 290 housing projects and urban areas on a total area of 6,680 hectares this year, 17 communal housing projects on a total area of more than 115 hectares, and 24 projects on housing for resettlement on a total area of 250 hectares.

The daily volume of plastic waste generated in Hanoi stands at more than 1,000 tons but only 2 per cent is recycled, with the remainder discharged into the environment. The Hanoi Urban Environment Company (URENCO) has said it is investing in a Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling factory with a capacity of handling 100 tons of plastic waste, which will be put into operation in 2023.

On June 20, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Public Interest Foundation International Manpower Development Organization (IM Japan) from Japan signed an MoU on a program sending Vietnamese to Japan on technical internships. The MoU adds more content to expand the selection pool and improve the benefits for the interns.

In Zeitgeist New Town in the Nha Be district, the school will educate 1,200 students in state-of-the-art facilities.

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi has held a conference to counter-argue the draft Hanoi Housing Development Program for the 2021-2030 period. Under the draft, Hanoi has set a target that, by 2025, the average residential floor space per capita is to reach 29.5 sq m and 32 sq m by 2030.

Hanoi created 96,900 jobs in the first five months of this year, reaching 60.6 per cent of the annual plan and up 21.5 per cent year-on-year. It also paid unemployment insurance to more than 21,200 people, with a budget of over VND575 billion ($24.77 million).