Poor families decided to leave their hometowns for the wild forestry Central Highlands seeking new opportunities. They chopped down forests to make land for housing and farming, and caught the authorities unprepared for the mass influx.

Speeding on their motorbikes cost two young men their lives yesterday afternoon in HCM City’s District 2.

The National Action Month on Population with the theme of conducting early prenatal and newborn diagnosis and treatment to improve the population’s quality was launched on Saturday in Hà Nội.

A midwife-training programme has achieved noticeable success with a marked reduction in the number of mothers giving birth at home as well as childbirth complications and deaths.

Wearing helmets and driving slowly are two of the measures promoted to ensure traffic safety for children, announced at a ceremony launching the ‘Go home safely’ campaign in Hà Nội on Saturday, which calls for community action to ensure kids are safe on the roads.

For fourteen years, Trương Văn Kiểm has helped hundreds of poor households have durable and safe homes.

Residents of a village near Phú Bài Airport in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province have reported that pressure from airplanes taking off has damaged their roofs.

Night after night, thousands of cubic metres of sand and gravel have been illegally mined from a portion of the Cầu River, causing erosion and affecting the dyke system for 200ha of agricultural land, online newspaper phapluatplus.vn reports.

Seven fishermen from Bình Định Province were rescued at sea yesterday after their boat encountered difficulties in rough conditions on Saturday morning.