The People’s Court in the northern province of Bắc Ninh yesterday sentenced nine people to death for heroin trafficking in the largest case of its kind in Viet Nam.

Every day at 4pm an old man with white hair dressed in a faded army uniform is seen walking along Nguyễn Trãi Street in the capital city of Hà Nội.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched Việt Nam’s Diplomatic Bluebook 2015, the first of its kind, at a ceremony in Hà Nội yesterday.

HCM City is carrying out a cyber security drill even as the city and country are grappling with a grave deterioration in online security.

Sitting at the foot of a tree in the National Institute of Mental Health, under the Hà Nội-based Bạch Mai Hospital, Lê Thị Thanh casts her eyes around to search for her son in the crowd queuing up to park their vehicles in the hospital’s parking lot.

The Government’s Inspectorate has uncovered violations relating to land use planning and management as well as budget expenditure in southern Sóc Trăng Province during the 2010-2014 period.

Keeping close-control of emission sources discharged from thermal power plants, industrial factories and traffic was an urgent task in the coming years, the National Action Plan on Air Quality Management until 2020 reported.

State management of food safety and hygiene should be restructured as it remains ineffective in monitoring unsafe food sold in the market, experts have said.

A technical assistance project funded by the Dutch government has been successful in enhancing training capacity for the Water Resources University and the Hanoi University of Natural Resources & Environment.