Hà Nội Transport Department will operate the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) pilot route from December 15, department deputy director Hà Huy Quang told local media yesterday.

The Ministry of Education and Training has not yet granted an operation licence to any brain activation class in the country, minister Bùi Văn Ga said yesterday.

World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Việt Nam Lokky Wai has called on Việt Nam to undertake more efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Toll fares, so far, have been reduced at 23 Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll stations nationwide, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Hồng Trường said.

Investigative police of Vĩnh Thạnh District in southern Bình Định Province will investigate a deforestation case in the local protective forest, the most serious case ever in the province.

A 230kg bomb was salvaged from the Hói Trẻn riverbed in Thạch Sơn Commune during construction of a sewage and canal system.

A massive flyover will be built early next year at the Nguyễn Thái Sơn-Nguyễn Kiệm Street intersection near HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất Airport to unclog an area which is choked by traffic, the Department of Transport has said.

In contrast to popular opinion that women and girls can protect themselves by avoiding strangers or unsafe places frequented by criminals, statistics show that 73 per cent of assaults on women are committed by acquaintances, and 10 per cent are fathers or stepfathers of victims.

HCM City should make a regular survey of trees to provide decision makers with information to make sustainable plans for adapting to climate change, experts said.