Investigation agencies have arrested five loggers suspected of illegal logging in La Dêê commune in Nam Giang district last month, Colonel Huỳnh Sông Thu, deputy director the provincial Public Security department told a press conference yesterday.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed the transport ministry inspect fee collection at the toll station on Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ expressway, the southern gateway to Hà Nội, to prevent loss of fees.

Đắk Nông Province’s traffic police yesterday evening seized a truck that was transporting dozens of cubic metres of logs of unclear origin.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the national scheme to restructure the net work of drug rehabilitation centres by 2020.

Heavy metals have been detected in six out of nine seafood samples taken on August 5 off Hà Tĩnh Province, the National Institute for Food Control’s latest report said.

A large crack has appeared in National Highway 32 C in the northern Yên Bái Province, which was heavily battered by storm Dianmu last week.

An explosion at a coal gasification furnace in the central Nghệ An Province‘s Trung Đô Granite brick factory killed two workers, a factory manager said yesterday.

The central city has chosen the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus) as the official mascot of Đà Nẵng at the 2017 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) Summit.

 A programme initiated by the Việt Nam Youth Union provides not only financial and employment support but also vocational training as well as legal consultation to young inmates and drug addicts.