The Department of Education plans to ask the city to issue detailed regulations on private services for students who must attend school in either a morning or afternoon shift.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has fined Việt Trì Bridge BOT JSC for illegally blocking vehicles from traveling on Hạc Trì Bridge in this northern province.

Prosecutors and police in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Nhơn Trạch District yesterday apologised for wrongly arresting and prosecuting a local woman who had reported illegal sand dredging in September 2015.

Portrait of a young girl from the Hà Nhì ethnic group in the northern mountainous Bát Xát District, Lào Cai Province. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hưng Mỹ Commune, in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Cái Nước District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.

A dead whale found on a beach in central Thừa Thiên-Huế yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.
 

HCM City has obtained significant progress in gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in the last five years, Nguyễn Trọng Đàm, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said at a conference held on Friday in HCM City.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has asked provincial departments of education and training to build swimming pools in schools to give swimming training to students.

Experts have urged the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces to rezone irrigation systems and dredge canals to cope with the damaging effects of climate change.