Fishermen in the south central coastal province of Bình Định have asked two companies to pay compensation for damage to their new steel ships.

HCM City People’s Procuracy on Wednesday said it asked the court to prosecute a Peruvian national for robbery, with assets worth nearly VNĐ6 billion (US$266,000), e-newspaper zing.vn reported.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ emphasised that salary reform is an urgent need at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to discuss global and local experience in renovating salary policies.

Poverty reduction is a target which is always prioritised by the Party and State of Việt Nam and the country commits with the international community to actively work to ensure no hunger.

An Australian-funded programme called Aus4Reform was officially launched Wednesday to boost the productivity and competitiveness of Việt Nam’s economy.

Ten years after it came into effect, Việt Nam’s mandatory helmet law still struggles to address quality issues and raise motorbike riders’ awareness of the need for safe helmets.

A school in Phú Thọ Province last week asked its 10^th graders a question in their first semester literature exam that has bemused me, though I was done with high school almost a decade ago.

In future the revised project on vocational training for rural labourers will be based on demands from enterprises.

HCM City requires strong commitment at the leadership level to develop a bus rapid transit system, a workshop heard yesterday.