Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng attended a ceremony this morning to commemorate Colonel Trần Quang Khải at Military Hospital No. 4 in central Nghệ An Province’s Vinh City. 

Baking hot temperatures have raised the forest fire warning in six provinces to level 5 – the extremely dangerous level, according to the Vietnam Forest Administration under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

Turbine group 2 with a capacity of 400 MW of the Lai Châu hydropower plant in northern Lai Chau province will provide electricity for the national grid starting this week.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged authorities in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) to focus on socio-economic development and improve living conditions for local people.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc offered condolences to relatives of the officers and soldiers involved in two separate accidents of a fighter jet and a rescue aircraft.

A head-on collision of two passenger coaches yesterday along Prenn mountain pass in Đà Lạt killed at least eight people and injured 30 others.
 

The body of the second pilot on board the missing fighter jet Su-30MK2, Senior Lieutenant Colonel Trần Quang Khải, was found late yesterday afternoon in the area of Hon Mat, an islet 40 nautical miles off the coast of the central province of Nghe An.

Vietnam News Agency in general and Việt Nam News in particular need to continue to renew news reporting and management methods, improve quality and accomplish the missions assigned by the Party and the State, making contributions to maintaining peace and stability, and fostering international integration while realising the 12th Party Resolution.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to buy salt to help salt producers, especially in areas with significant salt storage.