Việt Nam News

Clean Up Việt Nam Day will be organised on Sunday throughout the country including HCM City, Hà Nội, Phú Quốc Island, and Hạ Long Bay.

Police and experts discussed reasons and measures to tackle criminal cases in HCM City in a forum held by the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.

Most owners of land to be acquired for Long Thành Airport in Đồng Nai Province, 40km away from HCM City, want the airport to be completed at the earliest so that they can move out soon to new residential areas earmarked for them.

Dragon fruit growers should work together to ensure stable outlet for their products, said Director of Bình Thuận Province’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mai Kiều.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unexploded bombs were detected in residential areas in the northern province of Thái Nguyên, the provincial military command reported yesterday.

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.