Thousands of automotive parts and accessories were confiscated by the Hà Nội police from two gangs of thieves near the Hòa Bình (Giời) market in the capital city, the police said on Tuesday.

Since July 2, 2017, birth certificates, health insurance cards and residence papers of newborns in southern coastal Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province are being delivered right to their homes.

Police in northern Thanh Hóa Province on Tuesday said they had arrested a local for attempting to take a group of residents to China to work illegally.

Fines of some VNĐ1 billion (US$44,200) will be imposed on five production units that polluted a river branch in the capital city’s Hà Đông District, the city’s People’s Committee said.

About 1.14 million hectare of rice are to be planted in the northern provinces in the 2016-17 winter-spring crop, down 18,000 hectare compared to the 2015-16  winter-spring crop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has directed authorities to find the assets of suspects in corruption cases in order to prevent them from being hidden and to help in executing judgments against the accused.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant.

Abrupt weather changes this year have triggered several disease outbreaks, according to health experts.

Only 62 per cent of the 240,000 watercraft operating in the country are registered and quality verified, the Việt Nam Register Agency has reported.