The collaboration between two 'giants' in the agricultural industry – Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) with abundant land resources and U & I Agriculture JSC (Unifarm), a company that pioneers in applying high-tech agriculture - has breathed new life into the banana industry.

A representative of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said the widening of the provisions allowing Overseas Vietnamese to own houses will increase the capital flow into the country and promote the utilisation of the land resources in a more effective way.

Legislators are scheduled to discuss in groups the draft Land Law (revised) at the National Assembly's ongoing fifth session in Hanoi on June 9.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to make breakthrough in management and use of land resources in 2018 at the ministry’s conference in Hanoi on January 8.

Vietnam should draft policies to encourage the development of affordable rental housing in an effort to resolve the severe shortage of housing for low-income earners, experts said.

Government officials from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, which border the Mekong River, shared land governance experiences at a forum which opened in Hanoi on June 21.