Cybersecurity experts have advised users not to share private information on social media networks in light of a recent incident in which some 50 million Facebook users’ information was collected without their consent.

The section of the Sài Gòn River from HCM City to Bình Dương Province will be dredged in what will be the country’s first build-operate-transfer waterway project.

Hà Nội earned VNĐ7.955 trillion (US$349 million) from auctioning land-use rights last year, pushing the total revenue it earned from land up to VNĐ37 trillion ($1.62 billion).

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life as well as current and former leaders attended the memorial service of former PM Phan Văn Khải yesterday morning at HCM City’s Thống Nhất Hall and International Conference Centre in Hà Nội.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has assigned the provincial authority and sector of Mê Linh District to conduct a survey and suggest a location for the construction of a wholesale market.

Nearly 90 per cent of surveyed people agreed to have the C9 metro underground station located near Hoàn Kiếm (Returned Sword) Lake.

The Health Ministry will not be involved in investigation, prosecution and trial of the case related to the death of eight persons in June last year after undergoing kidney dialysis at Hòa Bình Province’s General Hospital. 

Foreign diplomatic delegations on Thursday paid tribute to the late PM Phan Văn Khải at HCM City’s Thống Nhất Hall, expressing deep condolences to the former PM’s family, the State, the Party and the Vietnamese people.

 Unseasonal rain in Bù Đốp District caused thousands of pepper-planting poles to collapse and destroyed a vast area of cashew and rubber tress.