The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the Department of Transport to replace unqualified investors of underground parking lot projects that have been delayed for more than 10 years.

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust yesterday (March 23) met with leaders of HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) to extend co-operation between the two schools in the upcoming time.

Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of  Đồng Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.

The Sơn Trà Nature Reserve – the green lung of Đà Nẵng - will turn into a desert, and the world’s biggest population of red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) will become extinct unless  rapid development of hotels and resorts there is not stopped.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee said yesterday it had ordered atmospheric water generators, which extracted water from humid air, to serve locals and tourists.

More solutions were urgently in need to ensure Việt Nam’s food security as climate change was no longer a risk but already hitting across the country, said an agricultural deputy minister on Wednesday.

Firefighters late Thursday afternoon were still battling a huge fire that broke out hours before at a Taiwanese garment factory in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ.

Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

Fire broke out on Thursday in a five-storey building in HCM City’s Kim Biên Street, dangerously close to the chemical market, but was brought under control after two hours.