Police on Wednesday launched legal proceeding against directors and personnel at three companies in Ninh Bình province and HCM City for alleged involvement in the illegal importation of scrap.

Investing in irrigation works was an effective task  in the combat fighting the circumstance of rapid land desertification in the southern province of Bình Thuận.

The People’s Committee of Đà Nẵng City has announced that at least 24 old apartment buildings will be removed in the period of 2018-19.

Heavy downpours and floods in northern mountainous and Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta regions over the past days have wreaked havoc. As rain is forecasted to continue in the coming days, flash floods and landslides are predicted, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Hundreds of 20-50 year old pine trees have been illegally cut down or poisoned with chemicals in the Central Highland province of Lâm Đồng.

The Agriculture and Rural Department in the central province of Quảng Bình on Wednesday confirmed violations relating to job promotions for two officials at its irrigation division.

The Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre’s socio-economic development in the first half of the party committee’s five-year term (from 2016-21) showed that it had reached 50 per cent of 10 of its 13 targets.

The People’s Procuracy of central province of Bình Thuận Province on Wednesday approved the launch of criminal proceedings against 17 people involved in disturbances of social order at the provincial People’s Committee headquarter in June this year.

Police in the northern province of Sơn La on Wednesday arrested two siblings residing in Lóng Sập Commune, Mộc Châu District trafficking 18 bricks of heroin.