The central city of Đà Nẵng plans seven suburban communes in Hòa Vang District for high-tech farms on a total area of 540ha – a crucial step to boost high quality and safe agriculture.

A lack of cutting-edge technologies, unrealistic policies, and a failure to take advantage of local expertise and knowledge are constraining agricultural development in the country, experts have said.

Lê Văn Hồng, a member of the H’Mông minority in Krông Bông District of the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk, had decided to send his two sons, aged 10 and 15, to work for a garment factory in the south.

HCM City authorities are seeking funding approval from the Prime Minister for 36 flood-prevention projects worth a total of VNĐ9.96 trillion (US$438 million). 

 Despite positive steps in anti-drug, drug smuggling continues seemingly unabated, especially in border areas.

Prolonged exploitation of sand and coarse gravel in rivers is changing currents and causing embankment erosion, which puts the dyke systems under risk, the Dyke Management Department said on Tuesday.

Police from the northern province of Hưng Yên have seized over 540 litres of wine without clear origin papers in Toàn Thắng Commune’s Trương Xá Village.

 The Ministry of Public Security has invited comments from relevant agencies on its draft to allow holding auctions for car licence plates.

According to the Hà Nội Preventine Medicine Centre, from the beginning of the year, some diseases like whooping cough, measles, rubella, dengue fever, and streptococcal infection have seen a trend of increased occurrence in the city.