Renewable energy plays a vital role in helping Việt Nam accomplish the long-term goal of having the whole country electrified, experts said at a conference on Tuesday.

The vice principal of Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm Secondary School in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông has been charged with appropriating more than VNĐ170 million (US$7,300) from the school and State budget over the past four years.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Monday confirmed that it was looking into the case of a high-level official in Bình Định Province who was awarded a number of promotions in quick succession.

Police in northern Hải Phòng City on Monday busted a drug trafficking ring which involved transporting and trading dozens of kilos of drugs.

Faced with a massive flood clean-up effort, the central province of Thanh Hóa is looking to the Government for disaster assistance.

The HCM City People’s Committee has issued Decree 28 which contains new regulations on compensation, support and resettlement for individuals and organissations whose land has been taken back by the State for public work projects.

The Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh plans to increase the production values of the agro-forestry-fishery sector by more than 4 per cent by 2020, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

Việt Nam Government is 100 per cent behind supporting ethnic minority groups, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình told the Ethnic Minority Development Forum in central Quảng Nam Province on Monday.

Southeast Asian migrant workers are no longer just emigrating to developed countries, increasingly they’re moving within the region.