Đà Nẵng plans to build a 4.4ha Central Square project in the city’s downtown that will serve as a landmark tourism attraction, shopping and public entertainment site.

The decline of the railway’s popularity in Việt Nam is not new: back in 2010, the European Union labeled rail transport as the country’s “least relevant” mode of transport.

A reconstruction plan for old apartment buildings in Hà Nội should be completed by the end of this month, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

Hải Phòng Police and Customs unearthed a drug trade ring, seizing more than 10kg of white substance and tools allegedly used to make the drug ecstasy, police announced yesterday.

Dr Nguyễn Viết Nhung, director of the Central Pulmonology Hospital, is one of the 19 members of the first task force on global tuberculosis research founded by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The public security ministry’s police investigation agency has decided to prosecute two former top officials of the HCM City-based Đông Á Bank (DongA Bank), it announced today.

The construction of Provincial Road 537 was completed just recently, but the section passing through Yên Thành District’s Hợp Thành Commune has already developed huge cracks and started caving in.

Five new inner-city bus routes with subsidised fares were launched on Saturday in Đà Nẵng.

Rescue forces have been seeking four fishermen missing from a fishing boat that sank off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province during the incessant rainfall of the past week.