Nearly 65,000 kindergarten and primary school students throughout the country have been taught about proper nutrition and physical activities through a programme undertaken by the Việt Nam Red Cross Society and FrieslandCampina Việt Nam.

The second phase of a project on enhancing the capacity of the Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) was launched at a ceremony here today.

The broken water pipe caused by serious floods in south central coastal Bình Định Province one week ago has affected nearly 3,800 households in Tuy Phước District, an official said.

The People’s Committee of the southern Tây Ninh Province has approved of a VNĐ1 trillion (US$44 million) project on building a canal irrigation system, located west of the Vàm Cỏ Đông River.

Samples of poultry and pork collected from local markets in five southern provinces and cities were reported to be contaminated with the E. coli bacteria due to unhygienic conditions at marketplaces, said Dr Nguyễn Vũ Thượng, deputy director of HCM City’s Pasteur Institute.

Many schools in HCM City fall short of fire safety standards, putting thousands of lives at risk, according to the city’s Department of Fire Fighting and Prevention.

Signs of revival have brightened up Mù Cang Chải District in northern mountainous Yên Bái Province, three months after a historic flood swept through the area.

 Hà Nội Police in Cầu Giấy District has detained a man for prosecution of his act for physically abusing his nine-year-old son, resulted in scaring and several injures on the little boy’s body.

Huỳnh Hữu Cảnh and his cousin were digging up an iron object one day when a bomb left over from the war exploded, killing his cousin and leaving Cảnh, then in the fourth grade, blind.