Seeing plastic bottles floating at sea, Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Trâm and her two friends at Bình Mỹ Primary School in HCM City’s coastal district of Cần Giờ got the idea of using them to make a life jacket, and it won them the first prize in a contest called Sáng Kiến Cộng Đồng 2017 (Social Ideas).

Only 59 architectural works across the country have been recognised as achieving green standards of domestic and international organisations, including 45 works in the south, 11 in the north and three in the central region.

The National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre this morning reported that Typhoon Tembin, the 16^th tropical storm over the East Sea this year, has weakened into a tropical depression in the south of Việt Nam.

A fishing boat with the number QNa 91515 suddenly caught fire in Tam Hải Commune, Núi Thành District, in the wee hours of Monday.

Fees for local vehicles passing through Hoàng Mai toll booth in central Nghệ An Province will be reduced from January 1 next year.

A tour boat sank in Hạ Long Bay on Sunday. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.

On the morning of December 25, a total of 1,168,137 people in 15 provinces and cities in the south were relocated to safe places before storm Tembin makes land fall.

The Điện Biên Police, in co-ordination with the Ministry of Public Security, on Saturday caught three heroin traffickers and made the province’s largest-ever heroin seizure.

A fire that raged yesterday at Tràng An Việt Nam Confectionery Joint-stock Company in Bắc Sơn Industrial Zone, Thanh Hóa Province, left at least one person dead.