HCM City authorities on Tuesday destroyed nearly 22 tonnes of fake or substandard fertiliser without labels of origin worth VNĐ300 million (US$13,000).

Despite several setbacks, investors pledged in February to put the capital city’s first elevated railway to trial operations in October. However, financial constraints have once again casted a pall over the project’s prospects.

Three more avian flu outbreaks have been recorded in the Central Highlands provinces of Đắk Lắk and Đắk Nông, according to the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

The Ministry of Agricultre and Natural Resources is seeking solutions to prevent landslides in the Mekong Delta, after a landslide occurred on the Vàm Cỏ Lau Canal on Monday afternoon in An Giang Province, causing six houses to collapse and forcing two other households to relocate.

Health officials from Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia shared experience in fighting infectious diseases, especially avian flu, at a workshop in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế yesterday.

Deputy Prime minister Trương Hòa Bình has ordered the Ministry of Transport instruct the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam and Vietnam Railway Authority to work with relevant agencies in provinces and cities that the railway runs through to take drastic measures to increase safety at railways.

The police department for Smuggling Prevention under the Ministry of Public Security said it has seized medicine worth over VNĐ5 billion (US$220) believed to have been smuggled from Turkey.

A lightning strike killed three people in the central province of Quảng Bình while they were working in an open cemetery yesterday afternoon.

 Trương Thị Mai, Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, yesterday presented gifts to celebrate Vesak 2017 .