The capital city will issue regulations for the walking area around Hoàn Kiếm Lake in August, chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung said on Monday.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) yesterday held a ceremony to pay tribute to revolutionary contributors who had sacrificed their lives for the national liberation.

The water level in many parts of the Hồng (Red) River has been rising rapidly since the beginning of the stormy season this month, threatening the lives of island dwellers and those living along the river banks in Hà Nội, and submerging their crops.

The central province of Quảng Nam plans to build a railway flyover bridge in the most busiest cross-road section on the National Highway No 1A in Núi Thành district with total investment of VNĐ600 billion (US$26.5 million)

Two top officials of the people’s committees of Lào Cai city and province will attend court on Tuesday as defendants of a land eviction lawsuit filed by a resident.

Tropical Storm Sonca, the fourth to hit Việt Nam this year, is forecast to make landfall in central and northcentral Việt Nam on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.

Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife arrived in Bình Định on Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds of tonnes of fish being bred in the rivers of Phú Thọ, Phú Yên and Bình Thuận provinces died recently because of floodwater discharge and changes in water quality.