The HCM City People’s Court yesterday sentenced Phạm Công Danh, the former chairman of the board of Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), to 20 years in prison for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing severe consequences” at VNCB.

Vietnamese students competing at the World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) 2018 achieved high results with three teams bringing home gold medals and one team winning a silver medal.

Logistics enterprises in HCM City asked the city authorities to allow goods to be transferred by metro to reduce cost and traffic jam at peak hours, the online news outlet zing.vn reports.

The construction of An Dương-Thanh Niên overpass, a key project in Hà Nội, lags behind schedule with many parts incomplete, causing serious traffic congestion for vehicles passing through this route.

Hưng Yên Province has raised the alarm over environmental pollution as many local companies continue to discharge untreated wastewater despite strict punishments by authorities.

Many transport enterprises may have to spend trillions of đồng to replace their current black box recording devices with new ones if draft regulations on transport trading are approved.

Recently, children living near Nậm Mức stream in Búng Giắt Village in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên have started to risk their lives fishing wood from the swiftly-flowing floodwaters.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has 2,000ha of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming models, or 79 per cent of its target for the year.

The HCM City administration has asked the Department of Planning and Architecture to work with agencies to propose adjustments to resettlement areas in the Thủ Thiêm new urban area.