Livestock husbandry and forestry plantation have maintained good growth, but agricultural production slowed over the last six months, a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said.

Việt Nam has failed to issue a national certificate of quality for organic produce, creating obstacles for local producers pioneering in developing organic agriculture.

Many fishermen in the central province of Khánh Hoà are becoming prosperous by catching and selling young lobsters to breeding farms.

HCM City plans to limit vehicles on several downtown streets on weekend evenings in the future, according to the Department of Transport.

Students took their first two national high school exams in mathematics and a foreign language.

Only 20 per cent of workers at industrial zones have stable accommodations, prompting an urgent need to improve living conditions for labourers there, a senior official told a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

The southwestern province of Kiên Giang has set up 14 large-scale rice fields for growing crops in accordance with the Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards as part of a four-year programme.
 

Hà Nội will crackdown and strictly fine those providing early gender indications of foetuses through ultrasound scans, said Nguyễn Đình Lân, deputy head of the city’s Population and Family Planning Department.