Customs forces in the northern city of Hải Phòng discovered nearly 1.4 tonnes of pangolin scales and 20 elephant tusks weighing more than 100kg hidden inside a container shipped from Nigeria.

Việt Nam will host the 12th Intergovernmental Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia (EST 12) this year, said the Ministry of Transport.

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Việt Nam, but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. Most jobs in the country today are filled through personal contacts, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 The Prime Minister’s working group made a field trip to Hải Phòng Port on Tuesday to inspect a huge number of containers of scrap materials and waste which are building up at major sea ports in Việt Nam.

Sugarcane farmers in the Mekong Delta are facing losses during the harvest of the 2018-19 sugarcane crop because of low prices and yield.

The People’s Court of Hoà Bình City yesterday handed down sentences to seven defendants implicated in a serious medical incident that killed nine patients at the provincial General Hospital on May 29, 2017.

In 2017, not long after starting working for Company 78 under Legion no. 15 in Sa Thầy District, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, the family of Ja Rai ethnic Y Hoăn was twinned with the family of Vũ Thị Bắc, a company veteran.

The Ministry of Health has set a target to reduce hospital violence by between 15 and 20 per cent by 2020.

Phan Huy Chú High School teacher Nguyễn Kim Anh has assigned her students the task of helping their parents with preparations for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.