An early morning blaze destroyed over 1,000 sq.m of the Sóc Sơn market in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District on Thursday.

The Bình Định Department of Natural Resources and Environment has fined a sugar-processing company VNĐ1.9 billion (US$83,100) for discharging waste water.

Drivers will be able to top up their account through text or banking services to pay toll fees electronically at Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) booths nationwide, said Nguyễn Mạnh Hà, general director of Việt Nam Electronic Toll Collection (VETC) Company.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta who sowed the summer- autumn rice crop early are facing a threat of lower yields and increased costs because of disease outbreaks.

Many provinces and cities in the country plan to install cameras in kindergartens, but educators and lawyers say that the system cannot fully resolve the problems of bullying and physical abuse by teachers.

When it comes to seedless lime farming in Việt Nam, farmers across the country immediately think about a man with the nick name Hà Chanh Tứ quý (Hà Lime). He was the first person to grow Australian seedless limes in the northern province of Hưng Yên.

Medical checkup fees will decrease by 15-20 percent as from July 15 when a circular issued by the Ministry of Health regulating uniform prices for medical checkup and treatment services for insurance card holders in hospitals across the country takes effect.

“Your pens are the sharp weapons in the cause of telling the truth…” Thus began a letter that President Ho Chi Minh wrote to intellectuals and journalists in the southern part of the country on May 25, 1947. More than seven decades later, it is fair to say journalism has gone through many changes, all over the world.

ASEM’s pioneering role as a key driver of economic growth and innovation in the 21^st century and its contributions to international efforts to address global challenges were highlighted at a Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference that ended in Cần Thơ City on June 20.