The central province of Thừa Thiên–Huế is accelerating a project to improve the water environment in the former imperial city of Huế, funded by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA).

Mekong Delta’s Long An province and its neighbour, HCM City,  need to have better transportation and communications connections in order to improve their economic development.

A great number of Hà Nội students violate traffic rules as they drive electric motorbikes, said a senior police official.

Việt Nam will discuss ways to improve its research capacity in medicine and health services and internationalise its university education at a conference it will hold together with Australia in Hà Nội and HCM City from today.

Lack of means of transportation, inadequate infrastructure, weak management of local authorities and low awareness on waterway transport regulations of ship owners and passengers in the central province of Nghệ An are threatening the lives of hundred of passengers who travel on this mode of transportation every day.

The number of cases of diphtheria increased to 60 as of yesterd in Bình Phước, according to the south-eastern province’s Preventive Health Centre.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ yesterday said poverty reduction policies should not be too excessive because that would eliminate people’s motivation to improve their lives. Instead, these policies should build up people’s will, he said.

The HCM City People’s Court on Monday began a two-day court of appeals session, reviewing the trial of a gang that murdered six members of a family in Bình Phước Province.

Police of Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District have discovered six sacks containing dozens of elephant tusks in a raid on a house, owned by Phan Trọng Kiên, in Hoàng Liệt Commune.