All public schools in HCM City will be required to teach swimming beginning in the 2016-17 school year under a new directive from the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Seven million customers in 21 southern cities and provinces, except for HCM City, can now call the hotline 19001006 to submit complaints or request electricity registration and galvanometer attachment services.

Leaders from across major sections of Vietnamese civil society are taking on a new role in a nation-wide campaign to promote zero tolerance of wildlife crime through consumer behaviour change.

A fire ripped through the 1,000+ sq. warehouse of Van Thanh mattress company in HCMC’s Củ Chi District at about 1.30pm yesterday.

The Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) has proposed the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc suspend a project on hydropower plants in the Central Highlands Province of Đắk Lắk to preserve environment and avoid doing harm to wild animals.

The higher education students take, the higher the rate of unemployment they might suffer, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Doãn Mậu Diệp, said. The statement is referring to the more than one million unemployed of working age in the country in the first quarter of this year.

The island country of Indonesia has repatriated 33 Vietnamese fishermen who were reportedly detained in late 2015 and early 2016 for accidently fishing in Indonesia’s seas.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Ukraine has urged the host country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to quickly work with relevant agencies to clarify the unwarranted raid and property confiscation of Vietnamese citizens in Odessa city on May 23.

Police in central Phú Yên Province have found signs of criminal activity leading to deforestation across nearly 110ha of land in Phú Mỡ Commune, Đồng Xuân District.