In a Wednesday announcement, authorities in the northern province of Thái Nguyên revealed that the main cause of damage done to houses in Trại Cau Township and Cây Thị Commune was the mineral exploitation activity of three local enterprises.

The ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) made a great contribution to the ASEAN economy, said Nguyễn Thị Hương, deputy director of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has approved a feasibility study for a project that will build a tunnel between Belt Ring Road 2.5 and Giải Phóng Street in Hoàng Mai District.

On Tuesday, police in HCM City caught six Chinese citizens organising online gambling from a villa in Phú Hữu Ward, District 9.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a plan to slash the number of State-funded communication corporations and their total budget by 10 per cent by 2021.

Preservation of agricultural products is a major technological challenge for large-scale agricultural producers, especially in a country like Việt Nam with half the population engaged in farming activities.

Danh Khang is studying the third grade at a primary school in Phú Quốc island district of southern Kiên Giang Province although he is 14 years old.

Lack of attention to registering brand names and geographical indications is causing difficulties to Vietnamese agricultural products, which are sometimes shut out of other markets after their names are usurped by others, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

 The Government has aimed to prevent the construction of high-rise buildings in central Hà Nội, but investors have still found ways to get licences for their projects, according to construction expert Trần Ngọc Hùng.