Lê Văn Thọ, Chairman of Phong Dụ Commune, Văn Yên District in the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái, confirmed yesterday that a 56-year-old Italian engineer was killed by falling rocks at a local quarry.

Two men suspected of robbing a bank in central Khánh Hòa Province have been arrested, said provincial police on Friday.

Preventive Medicine Centre of HCM City warned dengue, hand-foot and mouth disease, measles were increasing and threatening to be spread among children when a new school year came.  

Trần Đình Liệu, Deputy Director of Việt Nam Social Insurance, speaks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) on his agency’s target to have all Vietnamese students join the health insurance scheme

The central city-based University of Science and Technology has launched its first ‘smart’ building complex, offering one-stop administrative procedure shop, an international student guest house and multi-function building with total investment of VNĐ103 billion (US$4.5 million).

Lâm Đức Du, a forest ranger on Côn Đảo Island in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, wakes up at midnight, picks up his flashlight and goes down to the beach to collect turtle eggs.

The brand of Ngọc Linh ginseng needs protection as a national one, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuân Phúc at a conference on developing Ngọc Linh ginseng and other medicinal herbs in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum yesterday.

Trà Vinh Province plans to use advanced technology in agriculture and increase production of specialty products, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Ngô Chí Cường, has said.

A campaign of building clear, clean, green areas without uncontrollable garbage is being conducted by different organisations, enterprises, hotels, restaurants and households in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế.