Two officials were dismissed from their positions and three others were disciplined with a warning after a karaoke bar fire broke out in Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District.

A 500-tonne barge sank on Đồng Nai river this morning, spilling at least 100 litres of oil, Trịnh Tuấn Liêm, director of Đồng Nai Province’s transport department, confirmed the incident to Người Lao Động (the Labourer) newspaper.

Traffic accidents killed 7,907 people and injured 17,184 others between December 16, 2015 and November 15, 2016.

The central Nghệ An Province has decided to remove tower cranes that don’t have licences or operate outside of specified construction sites, in order to improve safety levels.

Vĩnh Phúc Province People’s Court yesterday sentenced to prison eight former local officials at the first instance hearing. The accused, former officials of Vĩnh Yên City, were sentenced for abusing their position and power while doing public duty.

Only expired automobile driving licences made from paper are required to change into those made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) material.

Four people, including a two-year-old girl, were stabbed to death in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang on Thursday morning.

Five fishermen fell into the sea following a gas explosion on a fishing vessel off Bình Định Province, the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue has said.

Billboards covered in oversized foreign-language lettering or featuring inappropriate Vietnamese-language texts to catch public attention have been booming in the capital city of Hà Nội, in defiance of the city’s regulations on advertising boards, which took effect early this year.