Four children drowned on Wednesday while swimming in a river in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

A cold spell is forecast to hit the northern region from Friday early morning with the lowest temperature dropping to 10 degree Celsius in the high mountainous areas, according to the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre.

Vietnamese customs officials at the Hà Nội-based Nội Bài International Airport have seized 155 iPhones allegedly smuggled from abroad into the country.

Việt Nam is willing to co-ordinate with Japan in ensuring information security, Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn told Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Sanae Takaichi.

Nguyễn Thị Nghiêm let out a sigh of relief. Her house in District 10, among many others in the city, will no longer be included in a city plan that required homeowners to postpone renovation to their homes to make way for a new road.

The HCM City Department of Taxation is set to open an office dedicated to serving household businesses and newly established companies in the first week of April.

There is great potential for organic food production in Viet Nam, but the industry faces a number of challenges, experts said.

Last Friday, the principal of a public kindergarten in Lào Cai Province was suspended on charges of mistreating a four-year-old boy enrolled at the school.

HCM City might not achieve its target of buying more than 800 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses by the end of the year, according to the Public Transport Management and Operation Centre.