The US Government will continue to provide disaster relief grants to help Việt Nam respond to the severe drought and saltwater intrusion affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern provinces and Central Highlands, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced last Friday.

 In the first three months of the year, 121 fires, three-fourth of the number during the same period last year, occurred, injuring nine people.

HCM City has announced that it will pump an estimated VNĐ11.61 trillion into 84 projects in an attempt to reduce floods over the next five years.

Việt Nam’s maritime force chased six Chinese fishing vessels out of its waters in the central province of Quảng Bình, the municipal border defence force confirmed yesterday.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained 23 Vietnamese fishermen on charges of illegally fishing in the waters off of Terengganu and Pahang states.

Officials from the transport sectors of southern provinces urged the government to issue special policies to encourage the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transportation.

Local and international experts have proposed solutions to help HCM City secure its short- and long-term water supply.

Authorities have reached their first conclusion on the cause of the sinkhole collapse last weekend in Hà Nội’s Mỹ Đức District, saying it was triggered by a natural cause

Thai company SCG has announced 400 scholarships worth VND4 million (US$180) each and called on outstanding secondary school students from underprivileged families in seven cities and provinces to apply for them.