Her new, smaller home is not just for her and her husband. She also shares it with 70 dogs and 10 cats, all abandoned by their owners.

Authorities in Tiền Giang Province’s Gò Công Tây District are encouraging farmers to grow only high-quality rice varieties and want to export all of it.

The HCM City appeal court increased the prison sentence given to Dương Thanh Cường, former general director of Bình Phát Company and chairman of the Thành Phát Company, for “fraud and appropriation of property” from 16 to 18 years at a trial yesterday (Dec 14).

Hundreds of roads and alleys that faced frequent flooding in the suburban areas of HCM City have been paved and trees have been planted along the roadsides.

Five more imported cases announced this evening. All Vietnamese citizens. Two returning from Angola, two from Indonesia and one from Saudi Arabia. Five more people have recovered.

Nearly VNĐ20 billion (US$863,000) in fines has been collected from 10,848 cases involving illegal discharge of waste, following a two-year effort in HCM City to encourage people not to throw waste into waterways and public spaces.