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.

The health ministry on Wednesday released “The National Guideline on Nutrition for Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers” to improve women’s health and thus the physical stature of Vietnamese people.

Hàn Đức Long, 58, sentenced to death on four occasions, yesterday demanded a public apology from the courts after he was acquitted of charges of child rape and murder.

At least three people were killed at 11pm on Wednesday after a motorbike hit a truck in a head-on collision on Hà Nội’s Vĩnh Tuy Bridge.

The central city’s Oncology Hospital, in co-operation with the British–Swedish biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, has launched its first-ever Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation testing programme for non-small cell lung cancer patients in Việt Nam.

Up to four centimetres of land subsidence occurs in the Mekong Delta each year, and exploitation of groundwater is one of several factors causing it.