Authorities in the Central Highland province of Đắk Nông on Monday confirmed they had started criminal proceedings against the head of a forest ranger team for his involvement in the illegal logging and trafficking of hundreds of cu.m of timber.

“One curriculum, many sets of textbooks”, a new policy which is about to take effect in the coming time, welcomes publishing houses in Việt Nam to compile textbooks. Vietnam Education Publishing House is no longer the only one holding the monopoly of printing and distributing textbooks.

At the age of 85, Nguyễn Văn Chương, a retired doctor, has chosen to work hard at his own rehabilitation and physical therapy clinic instead of getting rest like other Vietnamese elderly.

The People’s Committee of central Quảng Ngãi Province has asked the Vietnam Expressway Development and Investment Corporation (VEC), the investor of Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway, to urgently repair 17 roads, which have been seriously damaged during the construction of the expressway, before the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday urged authorities of central Đà Nẵng City to make careful planning of Liên Chiểu Port and build it into a modern one in order to handle shipping containers and other services.

A 10-year-old boy who suffered from multiple organ failure after contracting dengue fever has been discharged from the hospital after a more than month-long recovery period, according to the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital.

Asia Injury Prevention Foundation has taken its Helmets for Kids programme to Thái Nguyên, a mountainous province north of Việt Nam, to make the road to school safer for children there.

As many as 158 individuals and organisations have been found illegally importing scrap into Việt Nam as they are not certified to carry out such activities.

Đồng Tháp Province is urging farmers to stop sowing the winter-spring rice as floodwaters are rising rapidly and could overflow embankments into rice fields.