The Government should bar certain industries from exploiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lest they damage public health, health activists warned yesterday.

It is necessary to reorganise the co-operative sector through gathering individual producers in co-operatives and co-operative groups in the time ahead, said President of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân.

Hồ Văn Hiệp, a resident of central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, sits looking at the sun beams piercing the roof of his home and wishing his compensation payment would come soon so that he can repair the broken roof before the rainy season.

Supervisors of the 27^th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) visit the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology yesterday in Hà Nội.

Deputy PM Vương Đình Huệ has promised help from the Government for the tourism sector in the central provinces hit hard by the Formosa environmental disaster.

Health experts from Việt Nam and Australia have exchanged medical knowledge at a conference on health services and medical science that began on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

Almost 1,100 households in the northwestern mountainous provinces of Lào Cai, Sơn La and Lai Châu are in areas with a high risk of landslides, erosion and flash floods.

A court in HCM City on Tuesday (July 19, 2016) began to try 36 defendents in a scam that caused losses of over VNĐ9 trillion (over US$403 million) to the State coffers at the Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB).