The Hà Nội Traffic Police have yet to impose any fine although many road users driving in the lane of bus rapid transit (BRT) have been recorded over the first days running the buses.

HCM City aims to move all poor and near-poor households, which represent 5.77 per cent of all households, out of poverty by 2020. 

Phạm Thị Lâm, a resident of An Xuyên 3 hamlet, Mỹ Chánh commune of Phú Mỹ district in central Bình Định Province silently dug up pieces of her children’s torn notebooks from layers of wet sand in front of her house. Her husband, Phan Văn Long, was busy with removing piles of concretes, rocks and sands out of his house.

Lâm and Long, among other locals of the flood-hit province, are rushing to clean up their collapsed houses after continuous severe floods by the end of 2016.

It is accepted by everyone that children need plenty of regular physical exercise, but parents in major cities are not doing enough to ensure this, experts say.

Applying advanced technologies would be a breakthrough-solution for successful restructuring of agricultural production, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyễn Xuân Cường said this week.

Sticking a ‘safe’ logo onto food products is one of the capital city’s recent efforts to fight off unsafe food, but the public is questioning its effectiveness.

Two workers were killed and two others wounded as a wall collapsed on a team of workers when they were demolishing an old building around 1.30pm in Trần Phú street on Wednesday.

The Tourism Department in central Đà Nẵng City yesterday announced the launch of two hotlines to receive timely feedback and quickly respond to reports related to tourist activities.

A 35 year-old woman in HCM City died of dengue fever on Tuesday (Jan 3), taking to six the total number of fatalities due to the disease since last year, according to the Preventive Medicine Centre.