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Two people were killed on Friday when a truck collided with a motorbike on a stretch of National Highway No. 1 running through Xuân Tâm Commune in Đồng Nai Province.

 From now until 2020, elderly people with no pension or state allowance, living in poor circumstances or in mountainous, island or ethnic minority areas will be entitled to social benefits.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved the widening of Trường Chinh and Tân Kỳ Tân Quý streets in Tân Phú and Tân Bình districts to ease traffic congestion.

Stringent regulations regarding foreign loans are influencing the disbursement of loans committed by lending organisations to carry out projects in Việt Nam, said Chief Representative of Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Việt Nam Office Fujita Yasuo on Thursday.

Hà Nội People’s Procuracy has issued a document ordering annulment of a previous decision by the local police on April 15.

Hà Nội Transport Service Company (Transerco) will replace all No 50 buses with new ones that provide passengers with free wifi and other conveniences.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has submitted a variety of potential solutions to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to help the struggling pig-farming industry recover.

Starting from June, new price ceilings will be applied on 1,900 medical services, with many expected to be increased two- or three-fold, as per a new circular issued by the Ministry of Health recently, as an attempt to drive up the number of those enrolled into health insurance programme.

 In 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, authorities uncovered 430 cases of human trafficking, involving 600 accused and 1,500 victims. Some 85 per cent of the victims were to be sold to other countries, mainly to China – in 195 cases – involving a total of 378 accused , while 490 victims were freed.

The Đắk Nông Provincial Inspection Committee yesterday issued strictures following the results of its investigation into management violations committed by a number of the province’s officials.

Stargazers in Việt Nam are expected to see Lyrids meteor shower from midnight Saturday .

Lê Văn Hồng, a member of the H’Mông minority in Krông Bông District of the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk, had decided to send his two sons, aged 10 and 15, to work for a garment factory in the south.

A lack of cutting-edge technologies, unrealistic policies, and a failure to take advantage of local expertise and knowledge are constraining agricultural development in the country, experts have said.

The central city of Đà Nẵng plans seven suburban communes in Hòa Vang District for high-tech farms on a total area of 540ha – a crucial step to boost high quality and safe agriculture.

HCM City authorities are seeking funding approval from the Prime Minister for 36 flood-prevention projects worth a total of VNĐ9.96 trillion (US$438 million). 

 Despite positive steps in anti-drug, drug smuggling continues seemingly unabated, especially in border areas.

Prolonged exploitation of sand and coarse gravel in rivers is changing currents and causing embankment erosion, which puts the dyke systems under risk, the Dyke Management Department said on Tuesday.