The Ministry of Health has agreed to further co-operation with the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and signed other agreements at the 71st World Health Assembly, which runs from May 21 to 26 in Geneva (Switzerland), Vietnam News Agency reported.

Thanh Hoá Province Police yesterday remanded two barrier keepers for three months in custody for "irresponsibility causing serious consequences" after a North-South passenger train crashed into a truck, killing two people and injuring 10 others on Thursday.

The Sóc Trăng border guards seized more than 50,000 litres of diesel in the territorial waters, some 28 nautical miles off the coast of the Mekong Delta province, on Thursday.

The licences of some 1,225 transport entities in Hà Nội have been revoked, reported Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper. 

Construction work on a road connecting Sóc Trăng City to a shrimp-rice farming area started, Trần Văn Chuyện, chairman of the provincial people’s committee, said Thursday.

The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Overwhelming heat since early May seemed to signal a harsh and long summer this year. While many seek to hide from the heat in comfortable rooms cooled with fans or air conditioners, many workers dare not use too much electricity for the privilege. They are poor, and paying more for power than they should.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has predicted ten risks that could result in disasters including those related to fire, pollution, transport, health and nuclear power plants.

When the authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai decided to build the Ayun Hạ irrigation system in 2000, hundreds of local residents in Phú Thiện District’s Chư A Thai Commune were relocated to a new resettlement area.