The central city's environmental police department, along with the veterinary sub-department, seized 780kg of packaged and fresh pork fat from an illegal processing house in Liên Chiểu District yesterday.

A fire broke out in the Phú Yên market in Hải Dương City in the northern province of Hải Dương this morning.

The central city’s Đông Á College and William Angliss Institute from Australia have started a personnel training programme for the hospitality, tourism and culinary arts sectors for the 2016-17 period.

A tractor collided with a bridge’s handrail and fell into the sandbank on the Hương River in Huế City today, killing the driver.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka, Japan, is actively carrying out measures to support Vietnamese nationals affected by the recent back-to-back earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and its surrounding areas.

More than 1,000 tourists who were stuck yesterday on Cù Lao Chàm Island in this central province were safely taken to the mainland this morning.

Environmental police in Hà Nội have seized 1.3 tonnes of food and additives whose origin is unknown and 10,000 packs of various kinds of candy.

Doctors called for better personal hygiene and nutrition among children to prevent and fight against hand-foot-mouth disease, especially during the period from March to May, which typically sees the biggest spread of the disease each year in Việt Nam.

A total of 83 traffic accidents have been reported nation-wide during the three-day holiday in commemoration of the Hùng kings, killing 63 people and injuring another 56, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.