Northern mountainous Lào Cai Province will this year achieve its target of building 1,219 boarding houses for teachers and 884 rooms for day boarders.

HCM City will publish air and water quality indexes on 48 electronic screens across the city starting later this month, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The central province of Quảng Nam is struggling to recruit doctors for public hospitals and clinics because of low pay and tough working conditions.

The Việt Nam Road Administration has decided to conduct inspections and apply closer supervision of toll collection and turnover at two more toll stations managed and operated by Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) investors.

Trần Thị Mai (not her real name), 30, from Mỹ Hào District of Hưng Yên Province, divorced her husband ten years after their marriage due to his continued violence toward her. Mai left and went to China. Two years later, Mai’s younger sister also left her husband because of domestic violence. She also went to China.

Two teenagers were the hackers behind recent attacks on the websites of several domestic airports, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.

Good settlement of post-war matters like AO/dioxin victims as well as leftover bombs and mines in Việt Nam will make contributions to consolidating and promoting friendship between Việt Nam and the US, said Nguyễn Tâm Chiến, President of the Việt Nam-USA Society (VUS).

The northwestern province of Điện Biên should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân told provincial officials yesterday.

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.