The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has officially announced addresses of 69 stores nation-wide certified for providing food products meeting safety control requirements.

The Prime Minister has approved all the technical support programmes for the HCM City Green Transport Development Project to improve the efficiency of public buses along a high-priority corridor.

United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson made a fact-finding trip to the southern province of BếnTre yesterday to find out about the impacts of ongoing drought and saline intrusion.

All the water samples taken from seaside resorts in the four central costal provinces hard hit by mass fish deaths recently are within the safe levels, according to a recent report.

The Prime Minister has approved the contents of a project worth over US$122 million to support the development of border areas in five Central Highlands provinces.

Dredging the river bed and trading in agricultural products on the Cầu and Đuống rivers will be banned, the northern province of Bắc Ninh’s People’s Committee has reported.

Khơ Mú Ethnic minority people play a traditional game in the northern mountainous Điện Biên Province’s Mường Ảng District. — VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng

The provincial People’s Committee and Party Committee officially put into operation a hotline and an email address yesterday to receive opinions and proposals from local organisations, businesses and residents.

The provincial police and Market Watch Department yesterday confiscated 9.7 tonnes of medicinal herbs with unknown origins used to make Chinese traditional medicine.