Việt Nam wants to nurture entrepreneurship spirit among students before they even reach university age, an education official said yesterday.

Some 500 disadvantaged families in the central provinces of Quảng Nam, Quảng Ngãi, Bình Định, Phú Yên and Khánh Hoà have received financial aid worth a total of VNĐ25 billion (US$1.07 million) to build their own houses.

The Ministry of Public Security announced yesterday that its Investigation Police Agency has launched criminal proceedings against the ministry’s former General Director Trần Việt Tân and former Director Bùi Văn Thành.

Master planning has been a weakness for HCM City for a long time and it could persist, a top HCM City leader has said.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is the focus of the 21st National Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology (REV-ECIT), which opened in Hà Nội yesterday.

In Bình Thuận Province, the country’s largest dragon fruit producer, more than 10,000ha of the fruit are being grown to Vietnamese good agricultural practice (VietGAP) standards, 500ha more than last year, according to the Dragon Fruit Research and Development Centre.

Hundreds of private, unlicensed container and truck yards in HCM City’s districts 2 and 9 are causing traffic congestion and other problems in the area, according to authorities.

Việt Nam aims to reinforce its hotline system for human trafficking prevention nationwide and across the border.

Two people died and one was injured when an explosion occurred while they repairing a boat at An Phú shipyard on 18 Đào Trí Street in Phú Thuận Ward in HCM City’s District 7.