All forces should be mobilised to cope with severe drought and saline intrusion in order to ensure food and fresh water for daily usage, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Đức Phát said at a meeting yesterday.
More than 130 cows and thousands of poultry died for drought in Ea Súp District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, according to the latest statistics of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Some 6,000 people in Việt Nam suffer from hemophilia, but more than 60 per cent have yet to be examined for the disease, experts said at a press conference yesterday.
Seventeen children and a teacher at a pre-school in the central Nghệ An Province’s Thanh Xuân Commune were hospitalised after being attacked by wild bees yesterday morning.
Nha Trang Port JSC has received a licence to revive Vân Phong Port in the central province of Khánh Hoà, which stalled several years ago after the original investor ran out of funds.
A handicraft booth at the fifth career day for the disabled in Hoàng Mai District, Hà Nội, yesterday.
Nine sixth grade schoolboys drowned yesterday afternoon while they were swimming in a section of the Trà Khúc River in central Quảng Ngãi Province’s Thanh Khiết Village.
The authorities in coordination with the concerned agencies yesterday began work on the construction of some key projects of 2016, including the building of the Cầm Thi cable-stayed bridge.
Unexploded bombs were detected in residential areas in the northern province of Thái Nguyên, the provincial military command reported yesterday.
Environmental police in Hà Tĩnh central province reported they have seized some 4cu.m. of precious timber in Đức Thọ District’s Thái Yên Commune.
The HCM City People’s Court today confirmed the death penalty for a Philippine woman who had trafficked 1.5 kilogrammes of cocaine to Việt Nam in 2013, overturning an appeals court verdict that had struck down her original death sentence.
Hà Nội’s Market Management Department’s police seized a large number of goods of unknown origin in Ba Đình District yesterday.
Inter-provincial bus stations and passenger transport businesses have been asked to publicise the hotlines for contacting coach managers.
The number of children in many localities being hospitalised has kept increasing over recent days due to unfavourable weather conditions.
Authorities in HCM City’s outlying districts plan to co-operate with local water supply companies to lay pipes to achieve their target of supplying clean water to all households by the end of this year.
Hà Nội must step up inspections on hot spots at whole sale markets such as Long Biên, Ngã Tư Sở and Phùng Khoang markets to block contaminated food from being moved to small-scale markets within the city, a health official said.
Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has decided to restrict the operation of cranes at construction sites, which would likely affect traffic and neighbouring construction projects.
Sewage discharge was the culprit responsible for a mass fish kill earlier this month in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Kỳ Anh Town, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s environmental and disease monitoring centre announced.
The police in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District, in co-ordination with the police of the environmental crime prevention department of the Public Security Ministry, yesterday seized goods smuggled from China.
Some 5,000 traffic accidents occurred across Việt Nam in the first quarter of 2016, killing nearly 2,200 people and injuring more than 4,500, the National Traffic Safety Committee has reported.
