Vietnam's parliament on Wednesday approved plans for an $8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.

The project is expected to reinforce the already strong economic linkages between northern Vietnam and southern China.

China will provide some funding through loans for the project, which is expected to cost more than US$8 billion. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Vietnam’s National Assembly has approved a railway project connecting the country with China, marking a significant step in modernising its transport infrastructure.

Vietnam’s parliament today approved plans for an US$8 billion (RM35.55 billion) rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with

The Vietnamese parliament approved a railway project worth over $8 billion that will connect its northern port city to the Chinese border. The project, which will connect the two countries, received overwhelming support from lawmakers,

Vietnam's National Assembly will on Tuesday approve a bold bureaucratic reform plan that will slash up to a fifth of government bodies, as it tries to cut costs and improve administrative efficiency.

Vietnam will cut one in five public sector jobs and slash billions of dollars from government budgets, after the country's rubber-stamp parliament on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to a radical streamlining drive.

It is one of two railway lines to China that Vietnam plans as part of its ‘Two Corridors, One Belt’ initiative.