HCM City on Sunday reopened the Bình Triệu 1 Bridge after nearly a year of construction, including almost three months of car restrictions, restoring full traffic at the city’s northeastern gateway following a complex engineering lift to raise its navigational clearance.

A sleeper coach carrying more than 20 passengers burst into flames on the HCM City-Trung Lương Expressway early Monday morning, triggering a kilometres-long traffic jam but causing no injuries, authorities said.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) is ready to engage in discussions with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to formulate programmes that will drive the reform of the country's healthcare system in the coming years.

The AEON Scholarship Programme, implemented by the AEON 1% Club Foundation, aims to support Asian students in realising their dreams.

The recent historic floods left 102 people dead or missing, destroyed or swept away 221 houses, and damaged 933 others, while over 200,000 houses have been inundated

According to initial reports, at around 7:15pm a passenger coach travelling down the bridge towards Đỗ Mười Street suddenly lost control and crashed into a motorbike moving in the same direction.

Etienne Ranaivoson, the Consulate General of France in HCM City, honoured Vietnamese Paralympian powerlifter Lê Văn Công on Saturday for his sporting achievements with a Gold Medal from the French Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Life at a ceremony in HCM City's Phú Nhuận stadium.

Đắk Lắk authorities are distributing a total of 2,000 tonnes of rice to residents in 24 communes and wards in the province severely affected by the flooding.

In Australia, ABC News on Saturday broadcast footage from Việt Nam Television’s VTV1 channel, showing people being evacuated from waterlogged rooftops and ongoing rescue attempts carried out under adverse weather conditions.