South Korea will temporarily stop receiving workers from 44 districts and towns in 10 Vietnamese provinces and cities, a document released by the labour ministry last Friday said.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy (SPP) is reviewing the police decision not to prosecute former leaders of Vinaconex Corporation for 18 breaches of the Đà River pipeline.

The fight against unsafe food requires more joint drastic efforts by State agencies, food producers, suppliers and users, according to the director of the National Agro Forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD), Nguyễn Như Tiệp.

Airports across Việt Nam have been ordered to tighten aviation security following cyber-attacks at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất international airport and Hà Nội’s Nội Bài international airport last Friday afternoon. 

The central coastal city has become a favourite destination for foreign diplomatic delegations and investors and a good example for other Vietnamese cities in utilising Official Development Aid (ODA), Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at a meeting with the city’s leadership on Saturday.

Customs officers at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport yesterday discovered a passenger illegally trafficking in forbidden rhino horns from Africa.

Border guards at the Móng Cái International Border Gate with China, in the northern province of Quảng Ninh, confirmed yesterday that the three kilos of white-coloured crystal they had seized two days earlier were illegal drugs.

The Hà Nội municipal People’s Committee on Saturday held a ceremony to launch the construction of a flyover bridge in Long Biên District.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are struggling to resume agricultural production because of the lingering effects of the recent drought and saltwater intrusion and a shortage of funds and seeds.