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The Ministry of Public Security is investigating 210 loan shark gangs who are lending money to around 2,000 people and demanding payback at extortionate rates.

One ship captain died after a Vietnamese cement transport vessel crashed into an international ship at about 2am on Monday in Quảng Ninh Province’s Hạ Long Bay, according to the Maritime Administration of Quảng Ninh.

Vietnam Railway has warned passengers against booking on unofficial websites which offer tickets at much higher prices, Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper reports.

A Vietnamese pagoda was inaugurated on January 5 in Most, a city in the Ustecky region of the Czech Republic, becoming the local Vietnamese community’s first spiritual cultural centre officially recognised by authorities.

Bình Dương Province Environmental Police, in collaboration with Thủ Dầu Một City Traffic Police, arrested the drivers of two trucks found to be illegally trafficking 21 tonnes of hazardous waste on Sunday, Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper reports.

Nearly 1,000 people, mainly students and youngsters, attended the main event of the Chủ nhật Đỏ 2019 (Red Sunday) campaign in Hà Nội on December 6.

The Ministry of National Defence is carrying out a project to build a process collecting and handling data on martyrs who lacked information.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked authorities in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province to make preparations in order to ensure a sufficient Lunar New Year (Tết) holiday for local residents, especially poor people, policy beneficiaries and those living in natural disaster-prone and disadvantaged areas.

Coal-fired thermal power plants in Việt Nam release about 16.4 million tonnes of ash and cinder each year and are forecasted to discharge about 20.5 million tonnes by 2020, a report of National Assembly (NA)’s Committee on Science, Technology and Environment has revealed.

Lâm Đồng Province will be developed to become an economic impetus of the Central Highlands with synchronous and modern infrastructure system by 2035. 

The Supreme People’s Court has announced an indictment involving Phan Văn Anh Vũ, known as Vũ Nhôm and officials of Ministry of Public Security for their violations in the purchase and sale of public-owned houses and land in Đà Nẵng and HCM City.

Storm Pabuk, the first to hit the East Sea this year, had killed one person, left one missing and injured six others in southern localities as of 10am on Saturday.

Vocational training schools in HCM City should also teach soft skills to their students, experts said.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy has prosecuted Từ Thành Nghĩa, former General Director of Việt Nam-Russia oil and gas joint venture Vietsovpetro, for “abusing position and power to appropriate assets.”

The bodies of three Vietnamese people killed in a recent roadside bomb in Egypt were brought back to HCM City yesterday.