A scrap collector who found a handbag containing VNĐ84.5 million in cash turned it over to the police on Sunday, according to Tháp Mười District police in Đồng Tháp Province.

The Minister of Public Security has directed competent agencies to launch an investigation relating to the news that two journalists received death threats.

The People’s Committee of Lý Thái Tổ Ward has sent a document to the Hoàn Kiếm District’s Authority proposing that businesses won’t be allowed to stay open until 2am to ensure social security and order and to meet the people’s aspiration.

Nguyễn Thị Hằng, of Dịch Vọng Hậu Ward, Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District, said she applauded a new policy of the capital People’s Committee, allowing districts to set up teams to catch dogs without muzzles that play or walk freely in streets or public areas.

The Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang will provide vocational training for more than 10,800 labourers living in rural areas in the 2019-20 period.

Hà Nội is trying to implement measures to restrict the number of personal vehicles in the inner city in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and pollution.

Work needs to be done in December to ensure the socio-economic goals set for 2018 are met or exceeded to create a springboard for the implementation of the 2019 plan, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Training workers with new skills in the context of international integration and the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the top priority of Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Doãn Mậu Diệp said at a conference held in Hà Nội on Monday.

The Ministry of Public Security has opened a hotline to receive complaints relating to corruption and wrongdoings committed by police officers.