Authorities in Hà Nội have asked the Government for permission to conduct a pilot plan which allows them to supply other agencies with information from its citizen database in exchange for a fee.

Studying the final year of mechanics major at HCM City’s Technical College Dương Quang Thiện spends his time taking a training course at Lập Phúc Company.

Police found two men packing heroin and synthetic drugs at a house in Mộc Châu Town in the northern province of Sơn La late Thursday evening. They seized about 15 bricks of heroin, three kilos of crystal meth and 6,000 methamphetamine pills.

Tiền Giang Province is growing more honeydew melons via a drip irrigation method and in membrane houses to raise farmers’ incomes, according to the province’s Department of Science and Technology.

The number of traffic accidents, traffic-related deaths and injuries in Việt Nam dropped in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year.

The central city rejected a proposal to build a 7km cable car route spanning the Thu Bồn River and connecting Hội An and Duy Xuyên District.

Enterprises have been reluctant to cooperate with university researchers on commercialization of their inventions and products because of the lack of intellectual property (IP) protection, according to the Việt Nam Invention Association.

A report on the evaluation and ranking of Việt Nam’s e-Government development in 2017 was announced as part of the National Conference on e-Government in Hà Nội on Thursday.

HCM City’s outlying Cần Giờ District has helped many poor and near-poor people rise above the poverty line in recent years through effective measures.