In 1999, Hà Nội was among five cities in five continents presented with the “City for Peace” award by the UNESCO to recognise its contributions to the struggle for peace as well as its development that meet the organisation’s standards of equality in the community, the urban construction, living environment protection, culture and education promotion, and care for young generations.

One person was killed and five others injured on Sunday night when a coach crashed into the waiting area of Đồng Tâm Station in southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Cà Mau City.

Thousands of hectares of sugarcane in Trà Cú District in the southern province of Trà Vinh have not been harvested due to falling prices.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has urged relevant ministries, sectors and localities at central levels to tighten control on trading, slaughtering and transporting pigs and pork products to prevent outbreaks of African swine fever.

Visitors to Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng, the area in the central province of Quảng Bình that includes the world’s biggest cave Sơn Đoòng, will be able to get online with a new free public wifi network.

About 85 per cent of an oil spill from a sunken floating fuel station in Hải Dương province’s Nam Sách District has been recovered, local authorities said.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), in collaboration with Bình Định's People’s Committee, on Sunday started work on a new reservoir in An Lão District.

Up to 131 weak bridges on the North-South railway will be repaired or replaced by 2021.

Many transport projects as part of the second express highway in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta may not be completed by 2020 because of surging prices and a scarcity of construction sand.