Kwong Lung-Meko Co. Ltd. on Tuesday said it has suffered damages of VNĐ368 billion (US$16.2 million) in the five-day fire in Cần Thơ City’s Trà Nóc Industrial Zone in March.

Traffic accidents cost Việt Nam 2.5 per cent of its annual GDP as per World Health Organization estimates, said Khuất Việt Hùng, vice-chairman of the National Committee for Safe Traffic.

HCM City police have released their investigation report on a suspected case of sexual harassment of a girl student at a primary school in Thủ Đức District.

Some 1,900 computers in Việt Nam have been attacked by WannaCry virus, so far – one of the largest-ever cyber-attacks affecting computers across the globe.

Although Việt Nam’s shrimp production has potentials to become the country’s spearhead economy with predicted export turnover reaching US$10 billion by 2025, the sector is facing challenges of small-scale production and limitation in shrimp breeding stocks, said Trần Đình Luân, deputy head of Directorate of Fisheries under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

HCM City plans to introduce 800 new buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) by the end of this year.

Việt Nam plans to more than triple the number of enterprises owned and run by ethnic minority groups by next year in a bid to tap into the full potential of these groups and reduce poverty.

The Government has ordered the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense to co-operate closely with all Provincial Departments of Construction to make public the lists of real estate projects which foreign organisations and individuals will be unable to own.

Twenty young leaders from Việt Nam and Australia representing the arts, finance, technology, philanthropy, business, start-ups, education and healthcare are meeting in Sydney sharing ideas for the inaugural Australia-Việt Nam Young Leadership Dialogue.