Già Hương and Cấy Mô bananas in Đồng Nai Province have been ready to harvest since February, but traders, mostly in China, have stopped importing the fruit.

HCM City will focus on reducing pollution in rural districts and communes, local authorities said at a conference held in the city on Thursday to review the National Target Programme for New Rural Areas 2016. 

The capital city’s People’s Committee has launched a campaign to support Earth Hour this year which will be held at 20:30 - 21:30pm on March 25.

The Division of Education and Training of Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District has banned all schools in the district from renting schoolyards for parking activities from this month onwards.

The Quảng Nam People’s Committee said it has collected eight tonnes of waste mixed with oil clumps along the beach in Núi Thành District, adding that these clumps were not the same as previous ones.

HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring operating in Hà Nội and HCM City, police said on Wednesday (March 1).

An earthquake, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit the districts of Nam Trà My and Bắc Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam on Wednesday, but no structural damage was reported.

Trekking through Hướng Hóa protective forest in Đak Rông District of central Quảng Trị Province, it is not hard to see dozens of tree trunks, branches and twigs lying in disorder on the pathway while green shades of leaves are gradually losing day by day.

Two sea dykes in Bạc Liêu Province were damaged on Tuesday (February 28) and Wednesday (March 1), threatening thousands of people living in the area, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.