Residents of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have to collect water from springs for daily use as the water supply works in the province have degraded.

A freight train service between Hà Nội and Nanchang City in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on Wednesday.

About 60,000 sq.m of pavements in the central districts of Hà Nội are being misused as parking areas, blocking pedestrians and degrading footpath quality, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reports.

New provisions on tourist guide licences in the Law on Tourism, which takes effect next year, will probably take away occupational opportunities of thousands of tourist guides in the country and lead to serious shortage of human resource in this sector, experts have said.

Continuous heavy rain since Sunday evening worsened the inundation in lowland areas in the central provinces of Thừa Thiên-Huế and Quảng Trị, with three people reported dead.

A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No. 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday (November 21).

Pediatric hospitals in HCM City have received four children diagnosed with malaria, including three patients from the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông and one from the southern province of Bình Phước.