Residents of Thuận Nam District in the south-central coastal province of Ninh Thuận are forced to abandon hundreds of hectares of cultivated land when local authorities inspect cases of encroachment of cultivation land.

The Ministry of Transport and the Australian Government on Friday signed an agreement to launch Aus4Transport, a new US$24 million programme to support the development of transport projects in Việt Nam.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed an urgent notice on the clearance of export goods at Tân Thanh border gate in the northern province of Lạng Sơn.

A student drowned while trying to save a woman and her two children who had fallen into a river in Thanh Hóa Province on Thursday.

The Government of Việt Nam always creates favourable conditions for Korean firms, including the Hyosung Group, to invest in the country, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. 

The number of students attending vocational training courses in the southern province of Bến Tre has been on the rise since 2015, indicating that people are increasingly interested in gaining work skills to compete in the internationally integrated economy.

Health insurance coverage in HCM City climbed to 83 per cent last year, exceeding the Government’s target of 80.7 per cent, according to city-based Việt Nam Social Security.

The People’s Court of HCM City on February 8 began its trial of Huỳnh Thị Huyền Như, former deputy chief of the Risk Management Department of the HCM City branch of VietinBank, and Võ Anh Tuấn, deputy director of VietinBank’s Nhà Bè branch, on charges of "swindling to appropriate assets" worth VNĐ1.085 trillion (US$51 million) from five companies.

After rough seas halted all sea travel for more than a week, thousands of people are now flocking to buy tickets to return to Quảng Ngãi Province’s Lý Sơn Island District for Tết.