People in Hà Nội are suffering the twin pains of hot weather along with water shortages in many areas.

Hundreds of households living along Khe Cạn Channel in central Đà Nẵng City have been complaining about the foul odour emitting from the polluted canal.

Hà Nội plans to install cameras at 15 locations at risk of flooding throughout the city, to better supervise the level of rising waters and put in place timely measures to avoid flooding during heavy rainfalls.

As a way of respect, many people in HCM City call the men who volunteer to protect them from neighbourhood thieves "knights of the street", an expression that was first used in Bình Dương Province.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday visited people in central Thừa Thiên-Huế and Quảng Trị provinces two years after the marine life disaster caused by the Taiwanese Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Steel Plant.

Twenty-three households living along a stream in Nậm Sập village in Nậm Nhùn district’s Nậm Pì commune will be relocated to a new place before the rainy season this year.

In the last few years Phú Quốc has seen a big improvement in taxi services as more tourists, investors and property buyers are attracted to the island.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc agreed to a plan to hire foreign consultants or a joint-team, including domestic and foreign consultants, to verify the pre-feasibility study of the HCM City’s urban metro-line No 5 project.