A cargo boat carrying 25 tonnes of aquarium fish feed hit the stern of a ship early yesterday morning on the Hậu River and sank soon after.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc kicked off the largest scale and most expensive anti-flooding construction project ever planned for HCM City yesterday, the latest effort by authorities to deal with chronic flooding problems.

As the nation joins the CASA 8983 and Sukhoi Su-30MKI crew’s loved ones, colleagues and relatives, in their grief, VNS pays its tribute as a reflection on the extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary people.

The bodies of two missing fishermen from a boat explosion offshore from the southwestern province of Kiên Giang were found yesterday, a representative of Zone 4’s Marine Police High Command said. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has decided to extend the rice support for fishermen affected by mass fish deaths in four central provinces.

Three people went missing on Saturday while collecting durians on Đại Ninh hydropower reservoir in Đức Trọng District of Central Highlands Province of Lâm Đồng.

The new Ghềnh Bridge spanning Đồng Nai River in the southern province of Đồng Nai opened to traffic on Saturday, more than three months after the collapse of the old bridge.

Hospital infection control and prevention is a major challenge facing Việt Nam’s health sector due to its important role in providing successful treatment to patients. However, many hospitals and health clinics do not pay enough attention to it, participants at a conference said yesterday.

Search and rescue forces of the Ministry of National Defense have found two black boxes from the CASA-212 aircraft coded 8983 at the depth of nearly 60 metres underwater, 26 nautical miles from Bạch Long Vỹ island area off Hải Phòng City.