The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An has made significant achievements in preventing and fighting smuggling and trade fraud at border areas.

Nguyễn Thanh Lâm, 35, a driver of a self-modified three-wheel vehicle, who drove in the wrong lane, is identified as a cause of the accident that killed 3 people and injured 1 person in the southern Bình Dương Province in Saturday.

HCM City authorities must continue to mobilise all resources and fully tap the potential and advantages the city has to achieve breakthroughs in its seven key economic development programmes, transform its growth model towards higher productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness, the closing session of the 17th HCM City Party Committee conference heard on Friday.

A sick fisherman was rescued off the northwest of Việt Nam's Hoàng Sa (Paracels) Islands yesterday, 140 nautical miles from the coast of Đà Nẵng.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình has asked the Government Inspectorate of Việt Nam to respond in writing to complaints about environmental violations from residents who live near the Đa Phước Solid Waste Treatment Complex in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District.    

The rainy season has arrived in Việt Nam’s Central Highlands, and people living along the Ea Rớt River in Đắk Lắk Province, again, risk their lives using handmade rafts and cables to cross the river.

 The Government monopoly in the rail industry has diminished competition and was in fact pushing the sector to the edge of crisis, economic experts said yesterday.

Drug addiction among young people has remained high and is the main cause of crimes among them, with half of young addicts having committed crimes, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs.

Issues relating to the management of apartment buildings and the quality of non-public kindergartens dominated the question and answer session as the 15th Hà Nội People’s Council wrapped up its sixth meeting yesterday.

Farmers who breed oxen and raise cows in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang have greatly improved their income.

The central province of Phú Yên began a solar-powered watering system for log farms in Tuy An district after one-year pilot project using sun-powered pumping systems for sugarcane farms in Sơn Hòa district.

A campaign called “Chắp Cánh Ước Mơ” (Giving Wings to Your Dreams) that helps street children in crisis was launched yesterday (July 6) in HCM City at Children's House in the city.

 The bodies of the captain and a crew member of the barge that crashed into a container ship on the Sài Gòn River in HCM City on Wednesday were found on Thursday.

 Not only benefiting from the scattered rain in the early afternoon, Hà Nội is forecast to receive heavy rain in the evening, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Hà Nội People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung has asked authorised agencies to crack down on illegal sand mining activities in Đức Thọ District after watching a video clip showing illegal sand dredging boats and a waterway police vessel.

The Hà Nội People’s Council on Thursday approved a resolution to raise tuition fees at public schools for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Authorities in Hà Nội have asked the Government for permission to conduct a pilot plan which allows them to supply other agencies with information from its citizen database in exchange for a fee.

Police found two men packing heroin and synthetic drugs at a house in Mộc Châu Town in the northern province of Sơn La late Thursday evening. They seized about 15 bricks of heroin, three kilos of crystal meth and 6,000 methamphetamine pills.

Studying the final year of mechanics major at HCM City’s Technical College Dương Quang Thiện spends his time taking a training course at Lập Phúc Company.