The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2016) kicked off yesterday at the Hanoi National University of Education in the presence of IBO President Dr. Poonpipope Kasemsap.

The Government has made efforts to improve the management of public assets but the task is made difficult by its massive scale and deficient database.

The southern province of Đồng Nai has asked the Government to extend a HCM City metro route and expansion of several expressways to enhance transport connections in the southern economic zone.

Poor electrical wiring is considered the most common cause of fire in every household, office, plant and trade complex, the city fire chief warned during a meeting with media on Friday.

Motorbikes’ exhaust fumes will be inspected, initially in five big cities, if a newly-proposed plan by the Ministry of Transport is approved.

Additional legal framework is needed to speed up the restructuring of State-owned plantations in Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn said at a conference on Thursday.

Human trafficking is serious, complicated, and has been reported in all 63 provinces and cities across the country, said major-general Nguyễn Phong Hòa, deputy director of the General Department of Police under the Ministry of Public Security, at a conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Bình Phước yesterday declared diphtheria an epidemic after three people died and 47 others were hospitalised to be treated for the bacterial infection.

City officials at a workshop on Friday in HCM City urged passage of a new regulation that would separate the sale of food additives and industrial chemicals within shops to prevent the sale of fraudulent or banned substances.