The government has issued a decree on regulating the implementation of measures to supervise and educate offenders under 18 who are exempted from criminal liability.

The Vietnamese border guard detained three Chinese nationals carrying fake ATM cards, telephones, a subscriber identity module and a large amount of Vietnamese money.

Thousands of jobs are available in HCM City after the Lunar New Year holidays, said recruitment officials at the city’s job centres.

The use of made-in-Việt Nam medicines at provincial-level hospitals has risen to 35.4 per cent since the Ministry of Health initiated an ongoing project named “Vietnamese people give priority to using made-in-Việt Nam medicines” in 2012.

To lay the foundation for turning into a smart city, HCM City continues to encourage the use of information technology in administration with a focus on e-governance.

Farmers in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province are earning good money by growing Gotu Kola, a plant used for daily meals as vegetable and an ingredient in herbal medicine, commercially.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Nông is working hard to ensure its more than 250,000ha of forests are not affected by fires during the dry season, which will last until the end of March.

A slew of infrastructure works has begun or been speeded up across the country after Tết (the Lunar New Year) holiday.

Up to 170 Vietnamese websites were attacked during the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications has reported.