The People’s Court of Biên Hòa City in the the southern province of Đồng Nai yesterday (July 30) sentenced 15 people to eight to 18 months in jail for causing public disorder on June 10 this year.

A builder was taken to the Emergency Department of Việt Nam – Germany Friendship Hospital last Tuesday in a critical condition after receiving an electronic shock while at work.

By the middle of this month, 14 registration centres which are responsible for testing and certificating vehicles’ roadworthiness will have been equitised, meaning that the private sector can now provide transport administration services.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau is taking measures to speed up projects funded with Official Development Assistance (ODA).

Thirteen people have died and another four people were injured early Monday morning after their coach crashed into a container truck travelling the opposite direction on National Highway 1A in Vĩnh Điện Town, in the central province of Quảng Nam.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai is providing free coffee seedlings and farming techniques for farmers in an effort to replace old, unproductive coffee trees.

More effective plans for natural disaster prevention are needed in the Mekong Delta, which plays an important role in the economy, but is threatened by natural disasters, climate change and landslides, Nguyễn Trường Sơn, deputy director general of the Việt Nam Disaster Management Authority, said yesterday in Cần Thơ City.

HCM City has spent several billions of đồng on building new markets to replace old or temporary structures, but several of them have been abandoned for years.

The high-tech agricultural production model is an important direction for Việt Nam’s agriculture, bringing high value to farm produce and raising the incomes of farmers, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.