Authorities in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are testing food samples taken from Ninh Xá Primary School as 52 students of the school suffered from food poisoning after eating lunch at school on Thursday.

Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province plans to build a new logistics centre and container port with total investment of VNĐ50,000 billion.

Hospitals in the southern region have admitted many patients diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease, measles or upper respiratory infections as the peak season (September and October) for contagious diseases has arrived.

Despite suffering from 90 per cent visual impairment, 37-year-old Trương Phước Khải of Hậu Giang Province in the Mekong Delta has a passion for making books.

Bạch Đằng Trading-Service Joint Stock Company on Thursday proposed restoring an old 84-km section of Tháp Chàm- Đà Lạt railway, with total investment of more than VNĐ8.2 trillion (US$351.7 million) in the form of a public-private-partnership (PPP).

There is a Vietnamese saying about parents’ care-giving: “When young, one relies on one’s father, and when old, one relies on one’s children”.

The HCM City fire brigade has called on people running shops at home to take proper preventive measures against fire.

The Ministry of Communication and Information has given licences to four publishing houses o compile and publish textbooks, increasing the number of textbook publishers to five.

Vietnamtourism-Hanoi Joint Stock Company is planning to launch a new city bus tour on October 10.