A high-ranking city official has demanded stricter punishment for illegal sand mining activities, saying the violation must be considered a crime.

Nearly 1,000 tonnes of fish have died since last Thursday on the La Nga River in southern Dong Nai Province, causing losses of billions of dong to local fish farming households.

Two people died and 17 were injured after a coach flipped on its side on National Highway 1A in Long Khanh Town in the southern province of Dong Nai on Wednesday evening.

Dong Nai Province is looking for the Prime Minister’s approval to be named the main investor for Phase 1 of a bomb and mine clearance project needed before the construction of Long Thanh International Airport can commence.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Companies expanding production and building new factories in the southeastern provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai are in need of thousands of new workers.

Mai Van Nhon, from the Industrial Zone Management Board, said the province will be choosier when licensing FDI projects and will refuse outdated technologies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The VPG Match Play Championship is scheduled to tee off from December 27 to 30 at Long Thanh golf course in the southern province of Dong Nai, 

Three people aged from 18 to 20 drowned on Tuesday and another girl is in a critical condition in hospital after their boat overturned and sank on Da Ton Lake – an artificial lake in Tan Phu District, the southern province of Dong Nai.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The southern province of Dong Nai plans to target Japanese, South Korean, Germany and Australian tourists for its tourism marketing strategy in the 2018-20 period.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Elephants in Dong Nai are destroying crop fields and damaging farmers’ buildings – despite a 50-kilometre electric fence built to keep them out.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dong Nai People’s Committee has fined the subsidiary of a Malaysian company VND9.7 billion (US$415,232) for illegally burying waste.

The People’s Committee of the southern province of Dong Nai has submitted for approval from the PM an evaluation of land reclamation, compensation and resettlement for the Long Thanh International Airport.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Giang Dien Waterfalls, located 40km to the east of Ho Chi Minh City, is an eco-tourism site where people can enjoy nature and avoid the heat and pollution of the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three hospital staff members in the southern province of Dong Nai were suspended from work on Monday after selling expired medicines to a patient last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A dialogue has been held between a working group of the southern Dong Nai Province’s People’s Committee and hundreds of workers of a company whose managers have fled the country.

Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai on February 11 used their own budget to pay the salary and Lunar New Year bonus for two thousand workers of a company whose managers have fled the country.

A 18km bypass in southern Dong Nai Province is in serious disrepair with thousands of trucks and containers using it every day to avoid weighing and toll stations.

VietNamNet Bridge - Sand exploitation brings huge profits even higher than that brought by illegal logging. Experts say.

Residents of the southern Dong Nai Province’s Tan Phu District complain that at least 50 wells in their locality have been contaminated with petroleum, making the water inedible.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s sand resources are expected to be exhausted after 15 years. However, people are still wasting sand, and enterprises continue exporting sand.