Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has made a proposal to the prime minister on next year’s public holidays scheme.It has suggested two options for Tết ( Lunar New Year) holidays -- seven days off or 10 days off.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed to spend VNĐ35 billion (US$1.6 million) to upgrade the Quảng Bình stretch of the Hồ Chí Minh Highway.

Storm Sarika weakened into a low tropical pressure this morning over the sea some 60km away from the Quảng Ninh coast.

A construction crane collapsed on the roof of a house on the capital’s Thụy Khuê Street last night. No casualties were reported.

Workers started moving mahogany trees on Hà Nội’s Kim Mã Street last night to make way for a metro line of the Nhổn-Hà Nội Railway Station.

The helicopter that went missing yesterday in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu was found this morning with the bodies of all three military officers on board.

Heavy rainfall and floods over the last few days have damaged several national and provincial routes in the northern province of Bắc Kạn. Reconstruction work is progressing slowly.

Four cases of Japanese encephalitis have recently been reported in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Kon Tum, local health officials said yesterday.

Patients with chronic kidney failure are putting their lives at risks using herbal medicines of unclear origin, a nephrologist said.