HCM city has announced plans to invest VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$158.4 million) in the construction of a levee along the canal complex of Tham Lương, Bến Cát and Nước Lên.

A 60-year-old Cambodian woman has been arrested and charged with smuggling eight kilograms of gold from her country into the southern province of An Giang.

Residents in Tam Nông District on Monday morning used about 20 vehicles to block a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll station in the area to protest what they call unreasonably high tolls.

The Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency will prioritise the development of e-transaction systems to help control costs and prevent abuse of the social insurance fund this year, officials have said.

Police from the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on Sunday seized nearly 4,200 packages of cigarettes that were being transported from An Giang Province to the city for consumption.

Hà Nội and the northern provinces will see light showers, scattered drizzles and humid weather until the end of this week, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said.

International and Vietnamese paediatric nutrition experts shared the latest clinical study on the impact of nutrition intervention on healthy growth and dietary diversity in children at a symposium held on March 11 in Hà Nội.

Đà Nẵng has added the mega project of an underwater tunnel crossing the symbolic Hàn River to the city’s master plan, despite public criticism of its cost and necessity.

More than 3,500 out of one million plus visually impaired people in the country have accessed information technology (IT), improving their schooling, work and daily life.