Officials dismissed for certifying substandard aquaculture products

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Deverlopment in co-operation with police to investigate a testing agency that reportedly falsified documents to allow 800 substandard aquaculture products to be sold.

Nghe An workers lack clean water Thousands of workers living in renting houses in Nghi Xa Ward, Nghi Loc District are suffering from a polluted water source.

Poor fertiliser plagues farmers The overlapping management over fertiliser production and trade has been blamed for the increased number of violations relating to fake or poor-quality fertiliser in Viet Nam.

Child deaths set off vaccine panic The vaccine Quinvaxem "5 in 1" has been removed from circulation in many areas in Ha Noi, Deputy Director of the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre Nguyen Nhat Cam said on Monday.

Da Nang bans containers of harmful shredded-steel scrap Da Nang authorities have refused entry to 18 containers of shredded scrap imported by a local steel company since they contained "harmful substances".