Local residents have welcomed efforts to put thousands of kilometers of electrical and telecom cables underground in HCM City.

The Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp plans to use high-quality rice varieties for more than 60 per cent of its 2018-19 winter-spring rice crop to improve farmers’ profits.

A number of ethnic people in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have leased out their land in order to raise funds to build houses or cover other expenses.

Some 1,100 tonnes of rice has been handed over to thousands of families in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận over the past three days.

A member of the Vietnam News Agency’s Communist Youth Union gives winter clothing to children in Lào Cai during a trip to the northern province on Saturday.

Two people were killed when a four-seater fell off the Chương Dương Bridge in Hà Nội into the Red River on Saturday.

An industrial park opened in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on Saturday to mark the 45th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties between Việt Nam and Japan.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and Việt Nam Social Security (VSS) have been working with other countries on bilateral agreements to ensure the benefits to foreign workers employed in Việt Nam who are required to make social insurance payments, said Đào Việt Ánh, VSS deputy general director yesterday at a media briefing.

Đà Nẵng’s Department of Information and Communications on Friday rejected the authenticity of a document that said a new bridge was going to be built in the city, saying it had been faked to create a real estate craze.