A fire broke out at a restaurant on Hai Bà Trưng Street in Hà Nội’s Hoàn Kiếm District last night destroying all of its facilities and a warehouse nearby.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh stressed that Việt Nam backs the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF)’s efforts to enhance economic cooperation apart from joint work in traditional sectors.

Trần Thị Ngọc, 81, of Thủ Đức District’s Bình Chiểu Ward, no longer goes to the district hospital for treating her joint and heart diseases as the latter recently opened a satellite clinic at the ward health centre.

The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a scheme to build the North-South Highway from Hà Nội to HCM City with total investment of about VNĐ230 trillion (US$10.2 billion).

The capital city’s administration has resumed the project to cut grass and trim plant project following a three-month cancellation over complaints of unnecessary expenditure.

The upcoming pilot programme for Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which was recently approved by the Prime Minister, will focus on strengthening the country’s science and technology progress.

Difficult living conditions at relocation villages in Lai Châu Province have forced people who have lived there for a decade to move back to their hometown.

 The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised dairy farmers having cows with low milk yields to switch to higher-yield cows or oxen for their meat.

Demolition work on the Sài Gòn Tax Trade Centre, built by the French 135 years ago, began yesterday (Oct 12) in HCM City to make way for a 40-storey office and hotel tower and the first metro subway route.