Huế City is asking authorities to allocate land in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province to set up markets for street vendors in an attempt to upgrade its tourism profile.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has proposed the construction of Mễ Sở Bridge, which will connect the city’s Thường Tín District with Hưng Yên Province.

 The price of salt has risen this year but middlemen, rather than farmers, have benefitted.

Residents in four central provinces have received Government compensation of more than VNĐ6.1 trillion (US$275.2 million) for the April 2016 mass fish kill in which 70 tonnes of fish died, affecting the livelihoods of 260,000 people, due to pollution by the Taiwanese steel company Formosa.

The Nhị Thiên Đường Bridge No 1 in HCM City’s District 8 officially opened to traffic yesterday, according to the city’s Urban Transport Management Authority No. 4.

Việt Nam is developing an integrated database and early warning system for diseases related to climate change, Đỗ Mạnh Cường of the Ministry of Health said on Thursday (October 19).

Nguyễn Văn Tân, deputy director general of the Office for Population-Family Planning, under the Ministry of Health talks to Zing.vn about urbanisation, maintaining population growth and the dramatic gender imbalance the country will face by 2050.

More investment in hi-tech agriculture is needed to produce high-quality exports with greater added value that can compete globally, speakers said at a conference held on October 19 in HCM City.

Around 400 delegates will gather in HCM City for the 21st annual conference of the Asian Science Park Association, which opens today.