SOS Children’s Villages Việt Nam, which provides homes for thousands of orphans and abandoned children nationwide, on Tuesday celebrated its 30th birthday. 

The monthly basic salary of civil servants and public employees will increase to VNĐ1.39 million (US$61), from the current VNĐ1.3 million ($57), this July onwards.

A new regime of exemptions and a 50 per cent fee reduction for commercial vehicles registered in a nearby ward will be applied at the controversial Cần Thơ-Phụng Hiệp toll booth from January 20.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy released yesterday an indictment of Phạm Công Danh, ex-chairman of the members’ board, for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing severe consequences” at the Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has stressed the important role played by science and technology in promoting production value and economic growth, and asked for more effort to effectively develop the sector in the future.

A patient who suffered a stroke and was declared clinically dead for 20 minutes has been released after 10 days of treatment, doctors from Hoàn Mỹ Đà Nẵng Hospital said yesterday.

The northern port city of Hải Phòng plans to implement four main transport projects in the period 2016-20, with foreign direct investment (FDI) totalling nearly US$500 million.

 In 2017, more than two million children in Việt Nam were stunted and 1.2 million were underweight, according to a report by National Institute of Nutrition.

People in the northern mountains shivered yesterday as temperature dropped to freezing point - and snow is likely to blanket Sa Pa Township this morning.