Polluted water containing toxic substances is the cause of the recent mass fish deaths in the coastal areas in this central province.

Hà Nội’s sewers and drains are still unable to cope with the heavy flooding caused by rains exceeding 100mm per two hours, officials said.

Police in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province have arrested a man for allegedly forging papers in former prime minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng’s name.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has urged relevant agencies to review the public lighting system of the entire city and move towards using LED lighting to save electricity.

One person was killed and four others seriously injured in a traffic accident this morning inside the Thu Thiem Tunnel in HCM City.

Many cows and buffaloes in the central highland of Đắk Lắk have died from eating indigestible food after suffering from hungers due to a serious shortage of drinking water and food caused by devastating heat wave, local agricultural authority has said.

A campaign to destroy mosquitoes and their larvae was launched yesterday in the southeast province of Đồng Nai to prevent the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus.

Some 292,000 disadvantaged people in the four provinces of Hà Giang, Quảng Nam, Lâm Đồng and Trà Vinh have benefited from a cash transfer programme that has been trialled for nearly a year.

 Thanks to technical assistance from surgeons at HCM City’s Thủ Đức District Hospital, doctors at District 11 Hospital were able to perform, for the first time, operations on a broken leg and hernia.