HCM City has begun the second phase of an environmental sanitation project at a cost of more than US$524 million, city authorities announced. Under the project, sewer networks and connections to houses will be built in parts of District 2.

The southeastern province of Bình Phước, the country’s largest cashew producer, plans to intercrop cocoa with a total of 50,000 ha of cashew trees in an aim to raise farmers’ incomes.

Northern Việt Nam’s Hà Giang province has a 274km border with China, thus is particularly vulnerable to human trafficking.

HCM City will build a complete digital map of roads to provide online information to reduce traffic jams and accidents, according to its Department of Transport’s road infrastructure management and exploitation division.

HCM City police must crack down on gangs using deadly weapons and street robbery, Senior Lieutenant General Tô Lâm, Member of the Politburo and Minister of Public Security said.

New research in the treatment of AIDS has pointed to a possible cure, which could lead to the UN’s goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.

The Urban Railway Management Board has submitted a construction investment project for the fifth metro line to the HCM City People’s Committee.

Authorities in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu are working with government agencies to provide financial assistance to farmers who suffered losses after the recent mass death of farm-raised fish in Long Sơn Commune.

The Government Inspectorate has detected a series of violations in the building and operation of Đình Vũ Polyester Manufacturing Plant in the coastal city of Hải Phòng, which led to huge economic losses.