Customs officials on Wednesday seized a tonne of ivory smuggled from Mumbasa Port, Kenya, worth VNĐ40 billion (US$1.8 million), at Cát Lái Port in HCM City.

Over 7,000 vehicles across the country were penalised in the first nine months of this year for speeding, Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam, said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved in principle a plan that would give HCM City greater autonomy in several areas including fiscal management, legislation and organisation of civil service examinations.

For over a decade the pace of tourism development in HCM City has been rather slow due to limited products in terms of places of interest and cultural and entertainment activities for tourists.
 

Girls who get married before 18 years old are much more likely to drop out of school and face a much higher risk of family violence, experts warned in a seminar on child marriage prevention.

Uncovered manholes are the latest threat to pedestrians in Viet Nam, with the hazard claiming at least two deaths in southern Bình Dương Province and HCM City in the last two weeks.

Journalists must be cautious when writing about sensitive issues such as human rights, HoàngVĩnh Bảo, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications said today at a conference in Hà Nội.

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City’s District 3 have successfully performed an endovascular intervention on a 57-year-old man with a hepatic artery aneurysm, a rare condition.

Surveillance cameras and speed monitoring devices installed along Nội Bài-Lào Cai Expressway will start recording violations on November 3, the transport police department has said.