A fire occurred yesterday morning at the Cultural House for Children in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên, destroying all of the home’s equipment and assets.

Customs officers handled 353 cases of goods being illegally transported by air in the first six months of 2016, worth more than VNĐ14 billion (US$627,000) in total, officials said.

Police in HCM City have arrested two men for using fake bank accounts to cheat several customers, earning hundreds of millions of đồng.

Education for Nature - Vietnam (ENV), together with the Hà Nội Environmental Police Department, rescued 40 wild animals being transported from northern Lạng Sơn to the city for consumption.

Police in the northern city of Hải Phòng and province of Hải Dương have broken up two online soccer betting and gambling rings responsible for betting of nearly VNĐ7.6 trillion (US$340 million), according to the Ministry of Public Security’s High-tech Crime Prevention Police Department.

 The Secretary of HCM City Party Committee Đinh La Thăng has asked the Department of Transport to adjust roads that have been built at levels higher than the ground floor of houses. 

Ninety two outstanding works by journalists throughout the country, winners of the National Press Awards 2015, will be given prizes on the 91st Vietnamese Revolutionary Press Day (June 21) – falling next Tuesday.

Child labour still exists in Việt Nam, especially in the informal economic sector, despite significant efforts to combat the scourge, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doãn Mậu Diệp said in a workshop in Hà Nội yesterday.

The pilot of the military aircraft that went missing during a training flight off the coast of the central province of Nghệ An yesterday was rescued at 5am this morning.