City cracks down on food-safety violators

The HCM City Food Safety Management Board has set up 11 teams to manage food safety at inter-district levels and two others at Hóc Môn and Bình Điền wholesale markets to resolve violations that have occurred since 2016.

Construction firms and the illegal coal mining game

Companies in the northern coastal province of Quảng Ninh have been illegally exploiting coal under the guise of carrying out legitimate projects, devastating the local environment and natural landscape.

Illegal sand mining discovered along Đồng Nai River

Authorised agencies of southern Bình Phước Province have discovered 15 cases of illegal sand mining so far this year along the upstream section of Đồng Nai River that flows through the province, provincial police announced on Tuesday.

Tiền Giang supports women startups

The Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang has launched a project called “Supporting women start-ups in the 2018-2025 period” with the aim of reducing poverty and ensuring social security.

BOT road investors face quality backlash

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) had decided to stop collecting tolls from build-operation-transfer (BOT) roads that had quickly fallen into disrepair after opening, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

Factory fire

Hà Hưng Pharmarcy Company’s factory of 4,000sq.m in Văn Lâm District, Hưng Yên Province was devastated in an inferno on Monday.

Cold spell to bring rain to north

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) said that a cold spell is forecast to hit northern Việt Nam starting on Wednesday.

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