The police will investigate an extremely serious shooting in this northern mountainous province even though the two victims and a shooter were dead, Major General Đặng Trần Chiêu, director of Yên Bái’s Police, said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has suggested the State Bank of Việt Nam clear, reschedule or put off debts for farmers who have been affected by the worst drought and saltwater intrusion in Việt Nam in almost a century.

The Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged schools across the country to voluntarily continue applying the new model of learning and teaching, called the Việt Nam Escuela Nueva (VNEN).

From a start-up with two cows, and after several serious economic losses, Đặng Ngọc Phong, from a poor farming family in the Mekong delta province of Đồng Tháp, now owns a large cow farming business. 

The HCM City People’s Committee spent VNĐ52.5 billion (US$2.34 million) on activities for children and teenagers over two months this summer.

The levelling of land for construction purposes, as well as the effects of climate change and rising sea levels, has contributed to a dramatic increase in water levels of the Sài Gòn River.

Hospitals quality management plays a very important role and if it’s not done in a proper way, incidents can happen and repeat, Health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said at a two-day conference on hospitals quality in Hà Nội.

Vietnamese students won two gold medals and one silver and bronze at the 28th International Olympiad in Informatics in Russia. 

Building a digital economy will be very important for Việt Nam to keep pace with rapid technology developments across the globe, a senior Australian scientist has said.