Doksuri, considered the most powerful tropical typhoon to hit Việt Nam in a decade, is expected to make landfall in the central provinces later today afternoon.

The number of new dengue cases has declined nearly 24 per cent nationwide over the past four weeks, the health ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department director Trần Đắc Phu said on Thursday.

The Việt Nam Railway is planning to run a pilot programme, installing cameras at road-railway crossings to catch violations and limit unsafe situations when trains pass.

About 16 flights between cities Đồng Hới, Huế, Quảng Bình and from Chu Lai to HCM City and Chiangmai, Thailand, have been cancelled as the tenth tropical storm for the year, Doksuri, headed for coastal central provinces.

V.T.A, a 65 year-old woman who lives in Đống Đa District, was unhappy with her weight and the size of her waist. Last week, the Hà Nội Department of Health found that the solution she sought – weight loss injections and other treatments at a salon in Cầu Giấy – was offered illegally and dangerously to V.T.A and many others.

Surrounded by bamboo, Trần Thị Đo, 76, quietly splits each bamboo tube into thin wickers for weaving baskets. Many residents of Thái Mỹ craft village in HCM City weave baskets like Đo does every day, but they are all elderly women and men. Do said youth are giving up this job for better work in industrial zones.

Custom officials at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport have taken a man into custody for allegedly trying to smuggle in dozens of cheetah and leopard fangs and African lion claws.

The World Bank Group on Thursday released its new Country Partnership Framework (CFP) with Việt Nam, focusing on inclusive growth, investment in people, environmental sustainability and good governance.

More than 600 local and international traffic experts and policymakers are expected to take part in the 12th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) in HCM City and Bình Dương Province next week.