Kiên Giang’s People’s Committee Chairman Phạm Vũ Hồng has asked six departments and sectors to work with local authorities to re-examine the area for bird nest farming in residential localities.

Cold air from China is approaching Việt Nam and is likely to have a direct impact on the northern and central provinces, the Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre has reported.

A head-on collision between a truck and passenger bus in central Quảng Bình Province early today morning killed three persons and injured several others.

 The Ministry of Health has asked the Department of Health in central Nghệ An Province to quickly clarify the details surrounding the death of a pregnant woman.

The People’s Committee of northern Quảng Ninh Province has allowed cars driven by Chinese nationals to enter Hạ Long City through Móng Cái border gate for tourism purposes.

Ten former Nam Việt Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank) officials, who were indicted for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences”, were sentenced to seven to 13 years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình Province has released charges against three accused for the death of eight persons after undergoing kidney dialysis at the provincial General Hospital.

The Quảng Nam Province authorities and a local gold mining company are probing if a rupture in the wastewater dam triggered the massive fish deaths in two rivers some days ago.

Receiving billions of đồng in compensation, several residents in Nước Trong water reservoir project area, Tây Trà District’s Trà Thọ Commune, thought they’d be able to escape debts they had accrued through high interest loans.