Việt Nam had set up its fully integrated forestry information database, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a conference in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Bắc Kạn arrested four people for trafficking 198 cakes of heroin, weighs nearly 70 kilos, in Tú Trĩ Commune on Wednesday.

Individuals and organisations across the country have donated a total of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$129 million) to the Fund for the Poor and the Social Security Programme for the year.

One person was killed and 13 were injured in a shipping accident on Wednesday in the northern province of Quảng Ngãi.

Farmers and workers in the informal sector are often reluctant to buy voluntary social insurance because they do not understand its benefits and lack knowledge about the programme, according to the Viet Nam Social Security agency, according to the Việt Nam Social Security agency.

Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Hằng interviews Danish Ambassador Kim Højlund Christensen about the first-ever P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – global summit in Copenhagen in October 19-20 with the attendance of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, as well as the role of Việt Nam in the initiative as one of the founding member countries.

The Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre has sustainably developed both aquaculture and offshore fishing in the last 10 years under a national marine strategy.

The HCM City People’s Economic Court on Wednesday began hearing the suit filed by taxi operator Vinasun against ride-hailing service Grab, accusing it of unfair business practices and demanding compensation of the VNĐ42 billion worth of losses it has suffered.

Six million people in Việt Nam managed to climb up the poverty ladder according to statistics released on Wednesday.