Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Sunday presented certificates of merit to 10 young people for outstanding achievements in 2017.

Something smells funny on Lý Sơn Island, as the mass trading of fake garlic has hurt the island’s signature trade.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has asked the government to plan part of Đà Nẵng Bay as an ‘urban area in the sea’, in an effort to meet the demands of a rising population and to attract tourism investment.

Nguyễn Ngọc Hoàng is a man on a mission. He turns up at University to study two days of the week but the rest of the time he turns up somewhere else - at the farm to help sell turnips. He is one of a number of volunteers who give up their spare time to help farmer sell their vegetables.

The coefficient used for land price adjustments, called the K coefficient, will increase by 0.1 in each circumstance, according to a regulation included in a decision by the HCM City People’s Committee. It will take effect on March 25.

Vietnam saved 485,000 kWh of electricity, equivalent to VNĐ834 million (US$36,612), during the Earth Hour from 8:30pm-9:30pm of Saturday, according to the National Load Dispatch Centre.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình yesterday ordered the authorities of HCM City to take good care of the victims of the fire accident that killed 13 last week.

An unlicensed doctor in the central province of Nghệ An was fined VNĐ50 million (US$2,200) for performing an unsafe abortion that killed a local woman.