17 crew members of a fishing boat that encountered bad weather and technical difficulties off the coast of Nghệ An Province were rescued Saturday and taken to Cửa Lò port.

Việt Nam needs to develop a legal framework and feasible roadmap to turn its wind energy potential into reality, which will help to meet the country’s rapidly rising electricity demand, experts have said.

The HCM City’s District 1 People’s Committee has announced that the district’s first two street vendor spaces will open on August 28.

Farmers in the central Quảng Trị and Hà Tĩnh provinces were hit the hardest by storms Talas and Sonca as their fruits and plants were damaged by strong winds and floods.

Doctors warn that using same non-sterile hand gloves or medical instruments for several patients may spread germs. Risk of disease is detected not only at clinics but also hospitals, especially through respiratory or contagious routes.

An increase in the regional minimum wage in 2018 has not yet been finalised because of differences over the margin of increase of the wage.

HCM City government's revenues in the first seven months of the year increased by 16 per cent year-on-year to VNĐ188 trillion (US$8.35 billion).

The recently opened HCM City Paediatrics Hospital in the outlying district of Bình Chánh will begin inpatient examination and treatment when it inaugurates its new building on August 1, according to the city Department of Health.

Disciplinary action will be initiated against five government officials in the central province of Hà Tĩnh who were involved in the mass fish deaths last year.