At least seven people died following a suspected case of food poisoning in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu on Monday, the provincial People’s Committee reported.

An explosion occurred on Tuesday in the city of Nha Trang, in the central province of Khanh Hoa, killing one man and severely injuring a further two.

Two children were killed and several other people were injured, two grievously, in the southern province of Bình Dương yesterday when a public transport bus crashed into a car and several motorbikes at a traffic signal.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has decided to adjust its construction plan for the North-South Expressway linking Hà Nội and HCM City due to a funding shortfall.

HCM City Party Secretary Đinh La Thăng has urged the People’s Committee to begin work on laying a pipeline to bring water to the city from Dầu Tiếng Dam in Tây Ninh Province.

The city of Đà Nẵng has started a pre-feasibility study to relocate the city’s railway station and redevelop the space with an urban project at a total cost of VNĐ15.44 trillion (US$683.2 million).

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) agreed with a proposal of Hà Nội’s People’s Committee to lower the elevation of Hồng (Red) river dyke and asked the local authorities to map out an itinerary.

It is a messy situation in issuing and monitoring the implementation of Việt Nam's current regulations on construction.

Two college programmes at the Đà Nẵng University of Science and Technology were officially recognised as passing the quality level of the ASEAN University Network (AUN).