HCM City has sought complete autonomy over its educational issues, listing several things it wants to do at a meeting with Minister for Training and Education Phùng Xuân Nhạ on Tuesday.

Work has begun on the US$322 million Cần Thơ Urban Development and Resilience project to reduce flood risk in the core urban area.

Đồng Nai will make environmental protection its top priority, while soliciting investment in its industrial parks.

HCM City’s new administration has ordered a careful review of the city master plan and amend everything that is impracticable to ensure people’s lives are not affected by bad planning.

Calculating the cost and choosing the investors and contractors for BOT projects must be transparent, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday.

Rescuers in the northern mountainous Lào Cai Province today continued their search for a British tourist who went missing while climbing the 3,143m Fansipan Mountain in Sa Pa District.

Some 45 rescue personnel and soldiers from the Military Command, Border Guard and Fire Protection teams in the central province of Thanh Hóa were dispatched this morning to rescue three trapped gold miners.

Police in HCM City have confiscated 1.2 tonnes of khat leaves imported from Africa and one case re-exported to the US. The leaves, which contain the stimulant cathinone, are banned in Việt Nam.

Three Vietnamese students from HCM City University of Technology won the first prize at the nation-wide Smart Water Innovation Contest, organised by the Swedish Embassy in Hà Nội. Their idea was to develop a smart phone app to detect water leakages, the embassy announced yesterday.