Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee, Nguyễn Đức Chung, has tasked the city’s inspectorate with investigating the paving of sidewalks throughout districts in the city and asked for results by the end of this month.

The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship 2018 in Việt Nam was launched on Tuesday by the Hồ Chí Minh Central Youth Union and IIG Việt Nam, an organisation for testing and educational quality accreditation.

The Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has banned taxis from operating on 13 streets to reduce traffic jams during rush hours.

Traffic police in the central province of Nghệ An seized a coach transporting nearly 1,300 baby poultry without clear origin on Monday in Diễn Châu District’s Diên Hồng Commune.

Hà Nội plans to construct a super satellite city by 2030, with a total area of over 17,270ha located in two districts of Thạch Thất and Quốc Oai and Sơn Tây Town.

Another trial run should be planned for Hà Nội’s Cát Linh–Hà Đông urban railway project, after the first one was cancelled due to a delay in capital disbursement, according to Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Ngọc Đông.

As the flow of goods intensifies in anticipation of increased demand during the Christmas and New Year season, there has also been an uptick in smuggling, authorities say.

Central provinces from Quảng Bình to Phú Yên, as well as the northern part of the Central Highlands will experience strong rainfall, which will subside starting from December 6.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc ordered the temporary postponement of fee collection at the Cai Lậy Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) toll station in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang for one to two months at a meeting held yesterday in Hà Nội.