Hà Nội Police on Friday prosecuted two company directors for trading counterfeit products after police and the Market Watch Division last month confiscated more than 600 water filters illegally labeled “Made in US”.
The HCM City police have detained restaurant owner Trần Tuấn Minh, 22, for allegedly misappropriating nearly VNĐ700 million (US$31,100) from an Australian.
As many as 123 villas that should have been on the list of must-preserved villas in Hà Nội were demolished because of mismanagement by relevant agencies, a report of the municipal People’s Council revealed.
At least five households in Sùng Chô Hamlet, Nậm Lỏong Commune, in northern Lai Châu Province, were evacuated on Thursday after a sinkhole with area of some 600 sq.m. appeared nearby.
The People’s Court in the south central province of Khánh Hòa on Thursday sentenced Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, better known as ‘Mother Mushroom’, to 10 years in prison for conducting anti-State propaganda under Clause 1 of Article 88 of the Penal Code.
Provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta region need to focus on speeding up agricultural production, tourism and services to tap the region’s potential, said Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ.
The northeastern province of Quảng Ninh will mobilise financial resources to relocate people from landslide- and flood-prone areas in 2018.
Households in the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu living near dangerous and risk of landslide have been relocated to safe places, local authorities said.
Hà Nội will reorganise the system of loudspeakers at the ward level in July, Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung said on Wednesday.
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Thursday US$153 million in concessional financing to support Việt Nam’s National Target Programmes (NTPs) for rural development and reducing poverty, which are central to the government’s strategy for raising rural incomes and productivity.
The director of the Bắc Biển Hồ protection forest’s management unit in Central Highlands' Gia Lai Province has been suspended from work for misconduct in forest land use.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the National Committee of Traffic Safety and the Transport Ministry to take measures against overloaded vehicles, and non-transparent competitiveness in car transport businesses.
Around 84 per cent of residents of the capital city approve of the proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles so as to ease traffic jams.
Around 15 hectares of pepper plants have withered and died in a commune in the central Quảng Bình Province, despite desperate efforts by local farmers to save the plants.
Health insurance profiteering is still common in private hospitals and health clinics, with medicine improperly prescribed and purchased, leading to an imbalance of. the healthcare fund, health experts have said.
The government will offer all possible support to businesses, start-ups and create jobs for workers, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.
Authorities are seeking ways to relocate hundreds of thousands of households facing the threat of landslides in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces.
Five houses fell into the Rạch Giồng-Kinh Lộ River and three houses were damaged after a landslide occurred in Hiệp Phước Commune in HCM City’s Nhà Bè District on Tuesday.