The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) just required a halt of all sand mining operations in the Dầu Tiếng lake, the largest reservoir in the country.

Due to insufficient management, hundreds of hectares of forest in Gia Lai Province have been illegally converted to domestic housing and agricultural land, Vietnam News Agency reported.

HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the city People’s Council to increase salary and allowances to raise incomes for kindergarten teachers in order to keep them working as the city has seen a year-by-year increase of kindergarten teachers quitting their jobs.

The south's key economic provinces, such as Đồng Nai, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu and Bình Dương, have recently shifted focus from agricultural to the non-agricultural sectors, resulting in a serious shortage of agricultural worker during harvest.

Many pavements in Hà Nội were cleared of encroachments in the two months after a campaign was launched to remove illegally parked cars, vendors, cafes, canopies and other obstructions, but the problem has recently resurfaced.

HCM City authorities have been asked to develop a master plan for urban underground spaces to prepare for the opening of subway lines in the city.

The Việt Nam Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation yesterday (May 17) opened to traffic the Gò Mây flyover at the intersection of National Highway No.1A and Lê Trọng Tấn, Nguyễn Thị Tú streets in HCM City’s Bình Tân District.

Experts have urged hospitals to update their treatment guidelines in obstetrics and paediatrics to help reduce the number of maternal deaths and medical errors.   

The China Eximbank has disbursed US$18.25 million for the Cát Linh–Hà Đông Railway Project, said Vũ Hồng Phương, Deputy Director General of the Railway Project Management Unit under the Ministry of Transport, on Tuesday.