Nguyen Duy Minh, 39, a civil engineer, commented that there are too many cities/provinces in Vietnam, compared with big countries such as Russia, the US and China. He believes that it would be better ...

Vietnam is planning to reduce the number of provinces by half and slash commune-level authorities by up to 70%, further expanding a streamlining drive that aims to cut billions of dollars from ...

suggesting that reducing Vietnam’s 63 provinces to around 40 is a practical and necessary step. However, they emphasize that the reform must go beyond a simple administrative map adjustment and lead ...

HANOI — Vietnam plans to merge provinces and eliminate district-level authorities, the government said on Thursday, as a streamlining drive aiming to slash billions of dollars from state budgets ...