Việt Nam News

A tropical depression near Luzon Island of the Philippines is predicted to strengthen into Typhoon Guchol, which will land in the East Sea, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Investigators from Hà Nội’s Transport Department recently slapped fines on fake mail trucks that were violating road and traffic rules.

Forty-three hectares of forests have been destroyed in Bình Định Province in the past few months, but no action has been taken against it, An Lão District’s People’s Committee said.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked Hà Nội’s police department to quickly investigate a customs officer who was caught replacing real ivory with imitations.

Department of Administrative Management of Social Order under Đắk Nông Province Police collaborated with Quảng Sơn Ward’s People’s Committee in Đắk G’Long District to launch the weapons and explosives handing-over event on Monday.

 A woman was thrown several meets during a balloon explosion yesterday in Trần Phú St near the sea in Nha Trang City, the central province of Khánh Hòa, dantri.com.vn online newspaper reported.

Advances and discoveries in the field of oncology are being presented at the first Việt Nam multidisciplinary oncology conference being held in Hà Nội on September 5 and 6.

The central city has revved up construction of a 5.9km flood discharge channel system intended to keep people safe in their homes when flood season comes this year.

The number of dengue patients in the capital city continues to decline, but preventive efforts must continue, said Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung of the Hà Nội People’s Committee.

Schools throughout the country held ceremonies yesterday to mark the new school year for 22 million Vietnamese attending a range of facilities from kindergartens to universities.

Hundreds living near the Trị An hydropower plant in southern Đồng Nai Province went to the dam to catch fish right after the plant closed its spillway on Tuesday morning.

Đồng Tháp Province authorities released over a million fish into the Tiền River in Sa Đéc city on Monday as part of efforts to regenerate aquatic resources.

The northern mountainous province of Tuyên Quang has dropped 1.2 tonnes of baby fish into Lô River, aimed at getting productivity of bred fish back on track.

Construction workers in the northern province of Thanh Hóa discovered a 1m-long, 30cm-diameter bomb buried in the ground while building an asphalt road in Hàm Rồng Ward on Monday.

Schools mark new school year.

Three pharmaceutical businesses in HCM City were fined VNĐ180 million (US$7,920) each for being unable to present necessary certificates related to medicine production.

The People’s Committee of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Vĩnh Long on Monday declared state of natural disasters level 1 (the lowest level) due to land erosion.

Quảng Bình Province Border Guard collaborated with Laos’ Khăm Muộn Province Public Security Department to investigate five Laos nationals involved in trafficking 12,000 drug pills into Việt Nam on Monday.