The HCM City People’s Court yesterday began its trial of 28 former officials of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank) (now Việt Nam Construction Bank) for allegedly "abusing trust to appropriate property" and "intentionally violating state regulations on economic management and causing serious consequences".

Three workers died of burns on Tuesday after being injured in a fire accident at a steel complex in Hải Dương Province.

The central province has revoked the investment license of the Tân Mai pulp and paper production plant due to delayed construction and operation and incomplete land-use certificate procedures as well as poor finance.

HCM City’s Department of Food Safety Management and Sóc Trăng Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a signing ceremony recently to agree to sell agricultural and aquatic products in a food-safety supply chain to help manage quality.

The northern region is likely to get rainfall on Tuesday afternoon, cooling some areas that have been suffering from a harsh early summer since the past week.

Maternal mortality rate in the country fell from 233 per 100,000 live births in the 1990s to 58.3 per 100,000 live births in 2016.

Police on Monday took into custody a man accused of killing four people, including two young children, in a knife attack in the northern province of Cao Bằng.

Việt Nam appreciated Sweden’ s sharing on experiences, good practices and technologies to support the development of public transport sector, Deputy Transport Minister Lê Đình Thọ said on Monday.

Fishermen around the country caught 1.08 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic species in the first four months of the year, 2.7 per cent up year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.