Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng wants countrywide improvements in building plans to respond to incidents and disasters, including search and rescue activities, at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

More rice farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre have growing other crops on low-yield rice fields and are breeding aquatic species and animals that offer higher profit.

All 23 hospitals in HCM City’s districts this year will have enough doctors who can take turns providing technical assistance to medical staff at health stations in communes and wards, according to the city’s Department of Health.

Ahead of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day – July 27, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc led a Government delegation, offering incense and flowers at the Truông Bồn national historical site in Đô Lương District of the central province of Nghệ An to commemorate the martyrs who died for national independence.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday convicted US citizen William Anh Nguyễn for disturbing social order and ordered him deported for joining a crowd that caused disorder on June 10 in HCM City.  

The investigation bureau of the Hà Giang police yesterday began criminal proceedings against a senior education official accused of manipulating school tests.

Đà Nẵng’s tourism department plans to open representative offices in China and Europe to promote investment, trade and tourism between East Asia and European markets in the coming years.

Public policies and especially enterprise polices are crucial to support gender equality at workplace, experts said at the forum “Promoting Gender Equality in the Digital Age and Integration” held in Hà Nội by the Ministry of Labour-Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) on Wednesday.

Female workers in the garment and textile industry exchanged experiences at a forum to raise people’s awareness about violence against women and girls held in HCM City on Thursday.

The Hà Nội Department of Transport has rejected a proposal to build a five-kilometre cable system across the Hồng (Red) River to serve public transport needs.

Google Maps has announced a new motorbike mode in ASEAN countries, including Việt Nam this week.

An eight-month baby girl was reportedly killed two hours after being bitten by a 40-kg Tibetan Mastiff dog on Thursday afternoon in a family in Hà Nội’s Đội Cấn Street.

Authorities of Đắk Mil District in the Central Highlands Province of Đắk Nông on Thursday successfully removed and destroyed a MK82 bomb.

Việt Nam plans to build five new airports in the next 12 years.

The exam cheating scandal in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang has officially become a criminal case as the province’s police yesterday started legal proceedings to investigate the wrongdoings.

Thousands of students across the country have been taking part in volunteer campaigns aimed at promoting the important role of youth in contributing to the country’s cultural, social and economic development.    

GameChangers, a team of five young programmers, has won the first KMS Hackathon championship with its intelligent virtual chat and job consultancy solution.

Many provinces and cities plan to visit and present gifts to families who are beneficiaries of state policies on the occasion of War Invalids’ and Martyrs’ Day on July 27.  

The HCM Communist Youth Union’s Vừ A Dính Scholarship Fund, in cooperation with Vinacapital Group, has launched the second phase of Mở đường đến tương lai (Opening Paths to The Future) by providing scholarships to 50 ethnic minority girls from 36 provinces nationwide.

About 1,000 marijuana trees were recently destroyed in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.