The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has urged collaboration including stronger monitoring and preparedness measures to prevent African swine fever from spreading to Việt Nam.

HCM City aims to reduce the number of poor households by 0.8 per cent next year and raise the average income per capita of these households by 3.5 times by 2020 compared to 2011.

The HCM City Department of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according to the director of the department's Public Transportation Management Centre.

Twelve world-leading experts on nano technology from Japan, Singapore and the US yesterday gathered at the “International Conference on Nano-technology and Materials Application” at Sài Gòn High-Tech Park (SHTP) in HCM City.

Vương Duy Bảo, grandson of the last Mong King Vương Chí Sình, in late July wrote a letter to the Prime Minister to ask for the return of a century-old palace to his family.

The number of road traffic accidents, traffic-related deaths and injuries in Việt Nam dropped in the first eight months of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Child labour remains a great challenge for HCM City authorities although a wide range of measures have been taken to tackle children labour, especially in the informal sector of the economy, officials have said.

A former chairman of State-owned PVTEX was sentenced to 28 years in prison for corruption and deliberate wrongdoings, a Hà Nội court ruled on Friday.

Shrimp products from Ninh Thuận Province on Wednesday received a Certificate of Trademark from the Intellectual Property Department.