HCM City will mobilise all possible resources for spending on anti-pollution measures and urban improvement to improve the quality of life as set out in a recent Party Committee resolution.

Ministries must intensify their actions to prevent all kinds of illegal river-bed mining and strictly punish those found to be illegally exploiting sand across the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.

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.