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 ...

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 ...

With 63 provincial administrations, critics argue that Vietnam’s bureaucratic ... He suggests that provinces should be merged based on their complementary strengths. For example, a province with ...

helping to narrow the development gap between regions. Currently, 9 out of 49 provinces and cities have essentially achieved the objectives and targets set out in Program 1719. At the National ...

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