The central city’s people’s committee has asked the local public security department to investigate an assault on a reporter at a bar in the city’s downtown on Sunday. The investigation agency must report on the case before Wednesday.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has invited local residents, tourists and foreigners living in the city to offer ideas and suggestions for developing Đà Nẵng as a smart city.

Toll on a stretch of National Highway 18 in coastal Quảng Ninh province will be reduced for Cẩm Phả City and Vân Đồn Ward residents from Wednesday midnight, said the province’s People’s Committee.

HCM City People’s Procuracy on Monday proposed jail sentences ranging from eight to 15 years for 10 former Nam Việt Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank) officials.

Five workers died and four others are missing after falling down with cargo in Hồng (Red) River in northern Lào Cai province on Sunday.

Five persons were confirmed dead after a fire broke out at a house in Central Highlands’ Lâm Đồng Province’s Đà Lạt City on Monday night.

The Greater Mekong, including Việt Nam, is expected to have a colossal US$66 billion poured in to strengthen regional economic co-operation in the next five years, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official on Tuesday.

Việt Nam needs more preferential policies to attract investors to the local cosmetics sector, economic experts have recommended.

Locating an underground station (Terminal C9) for the city’s urban railway project near Hoàn Kiếm Lake is reasonable, Đào Ngọc Nghiêm, deputy chairman of the Hà Nội Association for Urban Development and Planning told Tiền Phong newspaper (the Vanguard).