The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed the city People’s Committee allow a pilot electric motorbike rental programme in District 1.

Using iodine in salt, a health step long enforced in Western countries, cannot by itself improve iodine shortages in Vietnamese people, experts agreed at a conference held last week in Hà Nội.

Some cumbersome regulations for visa exemptions are believed to be hindering efforts to attract more foreign tourists to Việt Nam.

The functioning of district­ level education departments has come under public scrutiny after a teacher suggested they are abolished for being ineffective and obstructionist.

Tiên Tây Vàm Village in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre is notable not only for its delicate wooden products, but also for the artisans who make them. Here, women are - or were - known for their skills in the male-dominated carpentry profession.  

A pedagogical university in HCM City is having financial struggles as the result of a tuition-free policy that was issued twenty years ago.

The People’s Court in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu has reported that it has received the indictment of the provincial People’s Procuracy for prosecuting four crew members in connection with the sinking of the Hải Thành 26-BLC cargo ship.

HCM City People’s Court has sentenced Nguyễn Thị Hoàng Oanh, former director of Bến Thành branch of the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Việt Nam (Agribank), to life in prison on corruption charges after a 10-day trial.

Leaders of more than 30 cities in ASEAN countries gathered at a conference in Huế City, the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế in the last two days to discuss sponsoring and implementing sustainable development projects for cities in the Southeast Asian region.