A range of fresh policies coming into effect this month will force major changes nationwide, including registration before drawing money from the State budget and energy labels on cars and motorbikes.

The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve the house number chaos in the city.

The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bắc Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials, Major General Hồ Sỹ Tiến, director of the department, announced Saturday.

It has been eight years since Ly Van Hấp, a retired official, made use of his ancestors’ land and opened a wet market for poor vendors on T1 Street in HCM City’s Tân Phú District.

Hoàng Lê Kha High School of Tây Ninh Province and Trần Đại Nghĩa and Mạc Đĩnh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes in the Open, Interschool and SRobot Clip at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot), organisers announced last Saturday.

Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum so that children can better protect themselves from sexual abuse.

Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. But in reality, many people still face difficulties receiving the benefits because of ineffectiveness in policy implementation.

Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, experts said.

The central city’s construction department has suspended construction of a coastal new international Đa Phước urban project in the downtown Hải Châu district due to a lack of a completion report on environtment assessment.