Phạm Văn Vũ, 40, lives in Cẩm Tân Commune in Cẩm Thủy District, a mountainous area, where adults children have to use boats and cross bridges spanning the Mã River to get to work and school.

The ministries of Public Security and Justice should make clear that drug addiction is a disease and social evil, the vice chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs said at a two-day conference on legal policy on drug and HIV/ AIDS prevention opened on Thursday in HCM City.

An international savings, retirement and insurance business, the Aviva Group, has donated over VNĐ1.4 billion (US$60,000) to the Việt Nam Red Cross Society to support an initiative to help people recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.