HCM City needs Europe’s experience and solutions to create smart cities, a conference heard Friday.

HCM City plans to begin construction of 48 new projects and complete 19 traffic congestion projects in the last six months of the year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

In co-operation with Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), the central city has officially debuted a new public bus route as part of Đà Nẵng’s urban traffic corridor improvement project.

For hundreds of years, S’Tiêng ethnic group in Central Highland Province of Lâm Đồng has been living in forest  in the bordering area among Lâm Đồng, Bình Phước and Đồng Nai, now better known as Cát Tiên National Park.

The investigative unit of the police in the capital city’s Hoàn Kiếm District on Friday began criminal proceedings against a citizen who assaulted a female street sweeper.

Hà Nội Police on Friday prosecuted two company directors for trading counterfeit products after police and the Market Watch Division last month confiscated more than 600 water filters illegally labeled “Made in US”.

The HCM City police have detained restaurant owner Trần Tuấn Minh, 22, for allegedly misappropriating nearly VNĐ700 million (US$31,100) from an Australian.

As many as 123 villas that should have been on the list of must-preserved villas in Hà Nội were demolished because of mismanagement by relevant agencies, a report of the municipal People’s Council revealed.

At least five households in Sùng Chô Hamlet, Nậm Lỏong Commune, in northern Lai Châu Province, were evacuated on Thursday after a sinkhole with area of some 600 sq.m. appeared nearby.