The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on Tuesday reported about unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination from past wars in Việt Nam and activities undertaken to mitigate its effects.

Tất Thành Cang, Deputy Standing Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, on Tuesday (March 28) held a meeting with the city’s Study Promotion Association to assess its implementation of Instruction No 04-CT/TU meant to enhance the city Party’s role in building an educated society.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked city departments and all 24 districts to prepare for natural disasters this year by completing maps about flooding hotspots and raising public awareness about disaster risks.

Strong partnership and multi-agency efforts were vital for success in the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking, a conference that opened in central Đà Nẵng City heard on Wednesday.

A fire broke out early on Wednesday at a timber workshop in a crowded residential area in Lâm Đồng Province’s Thạnh Mỹ township, destroying all the wooden products inside.

The groundbreaking ceremony for upgrading National Highway No 60 from Rạch Miễu bridge to Cổ Chiên bridge in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre kicked off on Monday.

Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghệ An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said.

HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing heroin and ecstasy from them.

Hà Nội will stop operating five bus routes that serve cadres and civil servants travelling from Hà Đông to the centre of the capital from early next month.