Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged relevant ministries, agencies and localities to take drastic measures to cope with potential flooding from a tropical depression that is developing close to coastal areas.

Although Hà Nội is one of the country’s biggest cities, its system for removing broken-down vehicles from crowded roads is ineffective, traffic users and experts say.

Twenty years later, to the day, the pain is still fresh and the tears flow easily.

The central province of Hà Tĩnh has been through its share of difficulties, but after six years of building new-style rural areas, the province is full of fields and gardens of high economic value.

Two farmers in central QuảngTrị Province found 60 bomblets yesterday while digging soil to grow bananas in their garden.

A fire broke out on top of Bài Thơ mountain in northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Hạ Long City yesterday.

It is necessary to develop the HCM City-Vũng Tàu river route to ease the passenger and cargo load on the HCM City-Long Thành-Dầu Giây expressway, the director of the HCM City Port Authority, Nguyễn Hải Nam, has said.

The Ministry of Transport has asked Hà Nội to survey roads around the Hà Nội railway station project to evaluate the population and traffic density, in order to avoid overloading the transport infrastructure nearby.

Seventy-six Japanese products are being sold at hundreds of convenience stores and malls in HCM City as part of the Japan Fair event, according to the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).