The Hà Nội People’s Court has upheld the death sentence to eight people of a drug ring for trafficking 490 bricks of heroin, weighing some 171.5kg, hidden in gas cylinders.

Đắk Nông Province’s forest protection division has suspended four managers and rangers in Đắk G’long District over the recent heavy deforestation in Quảng Sơn Commune.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has recently ordered relevant agencies to broadcast all projects of constructing residential buildings violated land-related regulations in the city via mass media.

World Bank (WB) preferential loans during the 2017 fiscal year will be used for sustainable development, infrastructure, improvement of tertiary education, and disaster recovery in the central region, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh.

The Jarai people in Gron village of the Central Highland Province of Kon Tum believe that the nerby forest is sacred, its trees immortal. They have adopted strict rules to protect the forest, for example punishing those who cut even a small branch for firewood by making them plant 100 new trees.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have begun this year’s first harvest season of brackish water shrimp, earning strong profits due to high prices and favourable breeding conditions.

The Sài Gòn Transportation Mechanical Corporation (SAMCO) has broken ground for construction of the new Eastern Bus Terminal (Bến Xe Miền Đông) in HCM City’s District 9.

After ten years to carry out the plan of renovating old apartment buildings in Hà Nội, the city now finishes renovating 14 among total 1,516 buildings (equally 1 per cent), a recent seminar has reported, although a number of ideas and specific mechanisms have been proposed and piloted.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a target programme to develop a social support system for the period 2016-2020.