Downpours from 3pm to 7pm together with high tide on November 7 prompted flooding in Ho Chi Minh City and brought traffic in the city to chaos for several hours.
A technical support centre will be set up to help farmers acquaint themselves with new technologies applicable to the growing and processing of cashews.
A national action month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control was jointly launched by the Ministry of Health and the Thai Nguyen provincial People’s Committee.
The houses and fields of many people in Cao Bang Province were buried after a dyke containing the waste sludge generated at a local iron ore excavator broke.
China will spend $4.5 billion searching for domestic mineral deposits over the next five years in a bid to lessen its reliance on imported products, state media said.
Ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week are likely to agree on banning fresh protectionist measures to safeguard the world economy, a report said Monday.
A representative of Binh Son Petrochemical Refinery Company said that Southern Service Flight Company has begun to use Jet A1 fuel produced by the refinery.
Qantas extended the grounding of its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos after uncovering "slight anomalies" in some engines after a mid-air blow-out caused a major scare last week.
Private airlines in Vietnam are not strong enough to heat up the domestic aviation market even though their presence is needed, an industry official says.