The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a project that encourages the recycling of waste, especially plastic waste picked up by private garbage collectors.

Twenty-two projects involved in irrigation, disaster prevention and clean water supplies had effectively used more than US$2.7 billion in official development assistant (ODA) over the last 25 years.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has announced a toll station that was robbed three weeks ago had the appropriate amount of cash on-site.

Thousands of employees of a garment company in central Nghệ An province on Tuesday afternoon went on strike after discovering the company had cut their housing, petrol and hazardous working condition allowances.

A fire broke out at a shopping mall in Từ Sơn Town in the northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday morning, causing widespread panic.

Deep underwater surveys will help develop Việt Nam’s fishing industry. That was the message from Nguyễn Quang Hùng, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Fisheries, who acknowledges the country was lacking in deep water and ecosystem data.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Tuesday applauded the silent contributions of doctors and health workers from central to grassroots levels to public healthcare on the occasion of Vietnamese Doctors’ Day (February 27).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held an inaugural seminar on the multi-dimensional review of Việt Nam in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

An ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on the application of the 1982 United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea – UNCLOS and related UN legal documents was organised in Việt Nam’s central coastal province of Nha Trang yesterday.