The National Salary Council on Tuesday kicked off the first debate on regional minimum wage for 2018. Various options for the wage were recommended, including keeping it unchanged, increasing it by five per cent, six per cent, 6.8 per cent or up to 13.3 per cent compared with the current wage.

Farmers in central Hà Tĩnh Province are experiencing a hard time due to the poor harvest of peanuts and the low price of goober peas.

Police in the central highland province of Lâm Đồng have joined hands with the region’s Forest Protection Division to investigate large-scale deforestation in Đạ Tẻh District early this month.

Landslides hit two districts of the southernmost province of Cà Mau on Tuesday, damaging four households and incurring losses of some VNĐ700 million (US$30,800).

The Ministry of Public Security’s Immigration Management Department will launch online invitation and guarantee procedures for Việt Nam-based agencies, organisations and enterprises applying for Vietnamese visa for foreigners. The online procedure was piloted in HCM City on June 15.

The investigative police of the capital city’s Hai Bà Trưng District on Tuesday took into custody two suspects in connection with the assault of a foreigner and began prosecution of the case.

 The capital city will reopen some 130 spans of centenary arch bridges that have been sealed with concrete for more than a decade.

HCM City has set up a special task force to look into the expansion the Tân Sơn Nhất Airport and submit to the Government early September, a city leader has said.

People who have children especially at the age of between 5 and 15 and in the Mekong Delta should take preventive measures against Japanese encephalitis, which breaks out between June and October every year, a doctor at the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital said.