The HCM City police have detained restaurant owner Trần Tuấn Minh, 22, for allegedly misappropriating nearly VNĐ700 million (US$31,100) from an Australian.

As many as 123 villas that should have been on the list of must-preserved villas in Hà Nội were demolished because of mismanagement by relevant agencies, a report of the municipal People’s Council revealed.

At least five households in Sùng Chô Hamlet, Nậm Lỏong Commune, in northern Lai Châu Province, were evacuated on Thursday after a sinkhole with area of some 600 sq.m. appeared nearby.

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.