The Customs Department at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on June 29 seized over four kilos of cannabis hidden in 20 vacuum-sealed food packages sent from an unidentified person in California.

Local-level health care facilities are expected to increase their capacity and provide better services to help reduce pressure at central hospitals by “gaining public trust”, said Nguyễn Nam Liên, director of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at the ministry’s press conference yesterday.

Farmers in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận are planting more rice, corn, sugarcane and other crops on large-scale fields to raise incomes.

A Nùng ethnic man born with brittle bones has defied physical limitations to develop his own business in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang.

The HCM City People’s Committee plans to create a special mechanism for payment of land compensation and resettlement to implement a city Party Committee directive that calls for strengthening the role and efficiency of authorities in these tasks.

Though new media platforms such as social media have become increasingly popular, mainstream media remains the major channel to promote the growing business community in Việt Nam, speakers said at a forum held on June 29 in HCM City.

More than 300 overseas Vietnamese businesspeople from 25 countries and territories met in HCM City yesterday to take part in the Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese’s (BAOOV) third congress.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City has brought the outbreak of swine flu (A/H1N1) under control, quarantining and treating those who tested positive and placing those suspected of being infected under close supervision.

Tunnel-boring machines on June 29 completed the drilling of the second tunnel of the Metro Line No.1 connecting HCM City’s Bến Thành Terminal in District 1 with Suối Tiên Terminal in District 9 after more than five months of construction, according to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways.