Outbreaks of cattle diseases have appeared in some areas across the country, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Veterinary Department.

“Almost all farmers face difficulties getting bank loans as they struggle to put a security up for loans,” said Nguyễn Đăng Cường, a farmer in Thuận Thành District, northern Bắc Ninh Province.

The Ministry of Health last Saturday confirmed two new cases of Zika virus infection, raising the total number of locally transmitted cases in Việt Nam to five since April.

The Xuyên Á Hospital Investment Joint-Stock Company yesterday (October 10) began construction on a general hospital in the Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long.

The prevalence of fake and substandard fertilisers has been a pressing issue that caused economic losses worth billion of dollars and turned the livelihoods of farmers upside down.

The Transport Department in Hải Phòng City has decided to ease regulations on banning vehicles travelling on National Highway No 5.

Hà Nội Transport Corporation (Transerco) this morning began operations of two new bus routes linking downtown Hà Nội with suburban districts.

More than 500 households living along the banks of the Bồ River in central Thừa Thiên-Huế have been threatened by serious landslides.

 Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have begun harvesting the year’s third rice crop, but face low yields even as prices have been pushed down by export difficulties.