Furnace collapses, burning workers

Five workers were injured when a cast iron furnace collapsed yesterday evening at Tân Nguyên Metallurgical Company in Northern Hải Dương Province, online newspaper vietnamplus.vn reported.

Land compensation payment delayed

The households were promised compensation from VNĐ150 million (US$6,400) to nearly VNĐ1 billion ($42,600) so they could change livelihoods.

Driver gets 3.5 years in prison for fatal car crash

The People’s Court in Bình Thạnh District in HCM city on June 17 sentenced Nguyễn Thị Nga to three and a half years in prison for “violating regulations on road safety” which resulted in a car crash that killed one woman and injured six men.

Primary schools and teachers not ready for new general education cirriculum

The new general educational programme issued by the Ministry of Education and Training at the end of last year will be applied for the 2020-21 school year. But preparations for the major transition are lagging behind schedule and with teachers unprepared for the new curriculum, it may already be too late to ensure a smooth transition.

Hà Nội in peak season for dengue fever

Over 67,000 cases of dengue fever and three deaths were reported in the first five months of this year across the country, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health.

Three Lao drug traffickers arrested in Điện Biên

The border guard force in the northern province of Điện Biên, in co-ordination with the security force of Muong May District in the Lao province of Phongsaly, has arrested three Lao drug traffickers, seizing 20kg of opium. 

In HCM City, administration, sellers closely monitor pork for disease

Official agencies and distributors in HCM City have dispatched their quality management teams to major slaughtering facilities and wholesale markets to ensure that 100 per cent of pork coming to the market is of good quality and without diseases, especially African swine flu.

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