Society

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday requested measures be taken promptly to repair damage wrecked by Storm Doksuri, which had killed five people, injured 15 others and unroofed 114,000 houses in five central Vietnamese provinces, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Thua Thien-Hue, over the past few days, and to provide residents with emergency relief.

-- The Ministry of National Defense on Saturday turned the first sod on a project worth VND270 billion (US$11.7 million) to treat dioxin-contaminated soil at the Bien Hoa airport, located in the southern province of Dong Nai, a major military airbase of the U.S. army during wartime in Vietnam.

-- The People’s Procuracy in Con Dao District in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, approximately 120km from Ho Chi Minh City, has revealed they had started legal proceedings against three men involved in the illegal sale of endangered olive ridley sea turtle eggs in April.  

-- More than 100 police officers in Binh Duong Province, 30km from Ho Chi Minh City, early on Saturday raided a beer club in Thu Dau Mot City, where they found attendants and clients using American weed and synthetic drugs.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has requested 27 households located along the Saigon River in Thu Duc District which face risks of subsidence be relocated promptly.

-- The two death-row inmates who had broken out of a police-run detention center outside Hanoi on Sunday last week was apprehended on Saturday and Sunday this week in Hai Duong Province and Hoa Binh Province.

-- A fire raged at Tan Binh Industrial Park in Ho Chi Minh City, destroying several of its workshops on Saturday evening.

Business

-- Though construction material producers and outlets have promised to provide adequate supply at unchanged prices in the central provinces ravaged by Storm Doksuri, thousands of residents find it hard to have their homes roofed due to a shortage of construction workers.

-- Health-conscious consumers have been drawn to a wide array of green vegetables and specialties from across the country offered for sale at a market session, to close on September 17, in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City.