Fishermen in the Mekong Delta have earned high profits from their near shore and offshore fishing trips with some having a bumper harvest and far more than last year’s catches during the same period.

Lào Cai Province should work with enterprises to establish large agricultural speciality zones and upgrade its infrastructure to enhance product value, according to a farming expert.

The Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu plans to lift 5,000 poor households above the poverty line this year, reducing its poverty rate to 1.9 per cent, according to its steering committee for national target programes.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the whole political system, sectors, enterprises and farmers to seriously take drastic measures to promptly control the outbreak of African swine fever virus.

The Mekong Delta province of Cà Mau will expand the area under bồn bồn (Typha orientalis), also known as bulrush, because of the high demand for the inner portion of its lower stalk used as food, according to the province People’s Committee.

Trade union leaders of enterprises located in the Hải Phòng Economic Zone expressed their hope that labourers will receive the most favourable conditions at work during their meeting with Trương Thị Mai, head of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission on Mass Mobilisation.

A photo of a new born baby boy reaching out and grabbing the apron of a doctor, just seconds after being born at a Vietnamese hospital.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will continue to use the ComBE Five vaccine in a national expanded immunisation programme (EIP), a senior official said.

Professor Nguyễn Thị Lan, director of Việt Nam University of Agriculture, yesterday received the Kovalevskaya Award – an annual honour presented to outstanding female scientists who have gained remarkable achievements in the research and application of science.