The Police Department for Smuggling Prevention, Tân Sơn Nhất aviation forces and HCM City’s Tân Bình District police on Friday seized a four-kilogramme-rhino horn.

Japanese businesses are keen to share experience, transfer technology and invest in the construction of metro line 3A and a trade centre at the central station of metro line No 1 in HCM City. 

Hà Nội police on Saturday early morning seized 14 illegal sand mining boats on Hồng (Red) river section running through Tản Hồng Commune of Ba Vì District.

Five people were killed and one was severely injured in a motorbike accident on Saturday evening in Xuyên Mộc District of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province.

Only about 65 per cent of rural households in Việt Nam have standard toilets, said associate professor Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương, director of the Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health (MoH), addressing the challenges related to rural hygiene.

More than 138,000 farmers in HCM City have been awarded the title of “Excellent farmers in production and doing business”, part of a programme that recognises outstanding contributions to the agriculture sector over the past five years, according to the city’s Farmers Association.

Nearly two weeks have passed since the particularly devastating heavy downpour and the floods that followed in the Central Highlands. Hundreds of households in Đắk Lắk Province, however, still remain on edge since the floodwaters have put their pepper fields in jeopardy.

HCM City authorities plan to relocate people living in 20,000 houses in slums along canals and rivers by 2020.

The National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân asked the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) to continue to promote its humanitarian activities, healthcare, emergency aid and disaster prevention and response programmes at a ceremony to celebrate its 70th founding anniversary on Saturday.