The Ministry of Education and Planning has set itself an ambitious goal of making English the second language at universities across Việt Nam.

Plans by the central city of Đà Nẵng to move its departments and civil servants out of the one-stop shop Administrative Centre need to be open for public comments and further study, said Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, Đặng Việt Dũng.

A fire broke out at a wood workshop in northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Đường Hoa Commune yesterday, destroying 30 square metres of the workshop.

One person was killed and three others were seriously injured on Saturday in central Khánh Hòa Province when a four-seat car, driving on the central Ninh Thuận-Khánh Hòa route, hit a southbound train in Cam Lâm Commune.

A steep increase in the number of poor and near-poor households following the implementation of new poverty measuring standards is putting pressure on the Government to achieve its poverty eradication goals.

Co-operation between farmers and businesses has brought high profit and stability of output for coconut growers in the southern province of Bến Tre, which farms the most coconut in Việt Nam.

Hundreds of hectares of scallion seedlings in south-central Bình Định Province's Phù Mỹ District are dying because of a shortage of water due to prolonged drought, local farmer said.

HCM City is considering two proposals, one from a Swiss company, to build public toilets.