The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has directed the four central provinces devastated by Formosa’s discharge of toxic waste to test sea water at 19 beaches every two weeks.

The HCM City People’s Committee has sought the Government’s approval to build a new road running parallel to its suburban National Highway No. 50.

Most enterprises at industrial parks in HCM City are lax about providing their workers with completely safe and nutritious meals.

Đà Nẵng plans to build a 4.4ha Central Square project in the city’s downtown that will serve as a landmark tourism attraction, shopping and public entertainment site.

The decline of the railway’s popularity in Việt Nam is not new: back in 2010, the European Union labeled rail transport as the country’s “least relevant” mode of transport.

A reconstruction plan for old apartment buildings in Hà Nội should be completed by the end of this month, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

Hải Phòng Police and Customs unearthed a drug trade ring, seizing more than 10kg of white substance and tools allegedly used to make the drug ecstasy, police announced yesterday.

Dr Nguyễn Viết Nhung, director of the Central Pulmonology Hospital, is one of the 19 members of the first task force on global tuberculosis research founded by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The public security ministry’s police investigation agency has decided to prosecute two former top officials of the HCM City-based Đông Á Bank (DongA Bank), it announced today.