Eleven workers were injured when a boiler exploded this morning at the Wood World Việt Nam JSC in Nam Cấm Industrial Park in Nghi Lộc District, Central Nghệ An Province.

HCM City Police on Thursday arrested four people involved in a tobacco-smuggling ring and confiscated 900 packages of contraband cigarettes.  

Health insurance will cover payments for HIV/AIDS patients at 18 hospitals and preventive health centres by December as international aid for free anti-retroviral medicine and treatment will stop in 2018.

Clean Up Việt Nam Day will be organised on Sunday throughout the country including HCM City, Hà Nội, Phú Quốc Island, and Hạ Long Bay.

Police and experts discussed reasons and measures to tackle criminal cases in HCM City in a forum held by the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.

Most owners of land to be acquired for Long Thành Airport in Đồng Nai Province, 40km away from HCM City, want the airport to be completed at the earliest so that they can move out soon to new residential areas earmarked for them.

Dragon fruit growers should work together to ensure stable outlet for their products, said Director of Bình Thuận Province’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mai Kiều.

All forces should be mobilised to cope with severe drought and saline intrusion in order to ensure food and fresh water for daily usage, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Đức Phát said at a meeting yesterday.

More than 130 cows and thousands of poultry died for drought in Ea Súp District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, according to the latest statistics of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.