A fire broke out in a four-storeyed building in Hà Nội’s Hai Bà Trưng District on Monday morning, destroying most of the structure as well as the building next door.

The Hà Nội People’s Court today sentenced a 40-year-old woman to 27 months of imprisonment for producing fake seals and documents of an organisation.

Doctors from the Đồng Nai International Hospital have successfully removed a 1.2kg tumour from a woman’s gallbladder.

The Police Department for Smuggling Prevention, Tân Sơn Nhất aviation forces and HCM City’s Tân Bình District police on Friday seized a four-kilogramme-rhino horn.

Japanese businesses are keen to share experience, transfer technology and invest in the construction of metro line 3A and a trade centre at the central station of metro line No 1 in HCM City. 

Hà Nội police on Saturday early morning seized 14 illegal sand mining boats on Hồng (Red) river section running through Tản Hồng Commune of Ba Vì District.

Five people were killed and one was severely injured in a motorbike accident on Saturday evening in Xuyên Mộc District of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province.

Only about 65 per cent of rural households in Việt Nam have standard toilets, said associate professor Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương, director of the Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health (MoH), addressing the challenges related to rural hygiene.

More than 138,000 farmers in HCM City have been awarded the title of “Excellent farmers in production and doing business”, part of a programme that recognises outstanding contributions to the agriculture sector over the past five years, according to the city’s Farmers Association.