The body of Hoàng Khánh Tùng, an 11th-grade student who drowned along with his two classmates while swimming near Quất Lâm Beach in this province on Sunday, was discovered today.

Engineers from the Military Command in Hải Phòng City, in co-ordination with the relevant units and the local authority, successfully removed four bombs to a safe place to defuse them.

The three provinces of Phú Thọ, Thái Nguyên and Bắc Giang have recently been added to the Hà Nội Capital Region Master Plan by 2030. The move was approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Ministry of Transport has discovered a number of transport violations related to management, transport trading licensing, vehicle safety conditions and speeding after the ministry’s inspection in Quảng Ninh, Phú Thọ and Nghệ An provinces.

The online passport application system has made administrative procedures simpler and reduced waiting times and overcrowding at government offices, according to the HCM City Public Security Department’s Immigration Management Office.

The HCM City Emergency Centre 115 on Saturday opened a satellite emergency aid station at Xuyên Á General Hospital in Củ Chi District.

Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN), a weekly French language newspaper under Vietnam News Agency, is calling for young reporters living in Việt Nam who speak French to participate in a writing contest called "Young Francophones Reporters –Việt Nam 2016".

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday signed a decision to provide urgent assistance to farmers in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue, who suffered losses from the unusual fish death that occurred in early April.

As the proportion of pregnant women with diabetes has risen in Việt Nam in the last 20 years, doctors are urging early screening to detect gestational diabetes.