Three members of a family in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu died after eating toad gruel, according to local hospital. 

Vietnamese young people and their Chinese peers exchanged knowledge about environmental protection at a forum in Ha Long City, Việt Nam’s northern province of Quảng Ninh yesterday as part of the ongoing third Việt Nam-China Youth Festival.

Residents in the central provinces of Hà Tĩnh and Thừa Thiên-Huế affected by the recent environmental incident started to receive their first-phase compensation package.

The National External Information Service Awards 2016, held by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Popularisation and Education and the Steering Committee for External Information Service, launched its official call for submissions yesterday.

Construction violations have been rampant for years in Hà Nội but lax management and irresolute solutions have left the problem unresolved.

Coal-fired thermal power plants should focus on technology renovation so as to minimise environmental pollution, given that thermal power will provide much of Viet Nam’s future energy, experts warn.

The Japanese-made Kaze Shuttle Bus picks up passengers in Bình Dương City.

Việt Nam has successfully produced a combined vaccine against measles and rubella that expectedly would benefit some 1.5 million children and thousands of women in fertility ages throughout the country with possible cheaper and timely vaccination.

The rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country fell by 16 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but health experts have said that more needs to be done to reach the goal of having a transmission rate of under 2 per cent by 2020 nationwide.