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Lương Duy Hanh has been appointed vice leader of the team inspecting Formosa's activities.

HCM City and southern provinces will be battered by heavy rains in the first 10 days of October and, together with high river tides, will cause flooding in many places, the Southern Hydrometeorology Station has forecast.

The traffic volume on the four expressways managed by the Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) over the past nine months increased 22 per cent over the same period last year to 27.4 million vehicles, VEC reported Tuesday.   

Two men were found dead after their electric fishing tool generated high-voltage current in the water in a field in the central Quảng Bình Province yesterday.

Three people among 28 guests at a wedding party in Hà Giang Province who were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning have died, provincial Department of Health director Lương Viết Thuần said.

HCM City needs to continue mobilising all resources to achieve sustainable growth in productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness for the rest of the year, a city official said.

Twenty per cent of HCM City’s population with no health insurance have been hit with a 30 per cent increase in fees.

The number of children infected with hand, foot and mouth disease in Cấn Thơ has sharply increased since last month, according to the Preventive Medical and Heath Care Centre in the southern city.