Members of the Central Key Economic Region are seeking for an institutional framework from the government for the cooperation within the region as the members failed to have a common ground for it.

A special task force has been set up to strengthen social order and security at transit points and in buses during peak hours in the capital city of Hà Nội.

Leading business groups in the Asia Pacific region recently set up a comprehensive cooperation programme called M2030 that aims to raise awareness about and funds to combat malaria in the region.

An action month for the environment will be launched next month with the theme “Resolving pollution caused by plastic and nylon”.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang switched to growing other crops on 20,000ha of paddy fields during the 2017-18 winter-spring crop, earning big profits and managing to cope with climate change.

Lác farmers in Vĩnh Long Province’s Vũng Liêm District are enjoying a bumper harvest and high prices.

Director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department in central Quảng Nam province dismissed some local forest rangers for their failure to prevent deforestation, which came to light recently.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked airlines, airport authorities and air traffic management officials to tighten supervision to ensure aviation safety.

Financial and managerial autonomy for public hospitals has yielded positive changes, but district hospitals have seen limited benefits and new challenges.