Comprehensive policies, particularly those for disadvantaged areas and those vulnerable to impacts of climate change, are the core of the Government’s programme to build new-style rural areas during the period of 2016 to 2020.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has asked the Ministry of Transport for permission to test cashless toll collection on one-stop toll highways.

IFProfs Việt Nam, a professional social network for French-language teachers and professionals, has been launched by the French consulate in HCM City and the French Institute in Việt Nam.

The ‘May 19’ Transport Co-operative on Sunday launched 50 new buses to run on its Eastern Coach Station - Hóc Môn route in HCM City.

HCM City plans to allocate more than VNĐ1 trillion (US$45 million) to curb air pollution at the Đa Phước Waste Treatment Complex and Đa Phước Cemetery in outlying Binh Chánh district.

The HCM City Preventive Health Centre has been instructed to co-operate with five hospitals to set up procedures for testing, diagnoses, admission and treatment for patients, especially pregnant women infected with the Zika virus, as the number of Zika cases has increased.

The HCM City Department of Transport will designate nine pick-up and drop-off points early next year for buses plying eastward in an effort to root out illegal bus stations and unlicensed transport firms.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday sent condolences to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over the loss of lives in the derailment of a train in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh state.

The central province of Hà Tĩnh has called for 30,000 vials of vaccine to prevent the spread of blue ear disease among pigs, which broke out a month ago.