The People’s Court in the south central province of Khánh Hòa on Thursday sentenced Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, better known as ‘Mother Mushroom’, to 10 years in prison for conducting anti-State propaganda under Clause 1 of Article 88 of the Penal Code.

Provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta region need to focus on speeding up agricultural production, tourism and services to tap the region’s potential, said Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ.

The northeastern province of Quảng Ninh will mobilise financial resources to relocate people from landslide- and flood-prone areas in 2018. 

Households in the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu living near dangerous and risk of landslide have been relocated to safe places, local authorities said.

Hà Nội will reorganise the system of loudspeakers at the ward level in July, Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung said on Wednesday.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Thursday US$153 million in concessional financing to support Việt Nam’s National Target Programmes (NTPs) for rural development and reducing poverty, which are central to the government’s strategy for raising rural incomes and productivity.

The director of the Bắc Biển Hồ protection forest’s management unit in Central Highlands' Gia Lai Province has been suspended from work for misconduct in forest land use.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the National Committee of Traffic Safety and the Transport Ministry to take measures against overloaded vehicles, and non-transparent competitiveness in car transport businesses.

Around 84 per cent of residents of the capital city approve of the proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles so as to ease traffic jams.