Việt Nam’s National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) has ordered the traffic safety boards of Hà Nội and HCMC and GrabTaxi Việt Nam Co Ltd to regulate and strictly handle Grab riders using mobile phones when riding.

The Hạ Long-Hải Phòng Expressway was opened to traffic at a ceremony on Saturday which saw the attendance of Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has urged collaboration including stronger monitoring and preparedness measures to prevent African swine fever from spreading to Việt Nam.

HCM City aims to reduce the number of poor households by 0.8 per cent next year and raise the average income per capita of these households by 3.5 times by 2020 compared to 2011.

The HCM City Department of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according to the director of the department's Public Transportation Management Centre.

Twelve world-leading experts on nano technology from Japan, Singapore and the US yesterday gathered at the “International Conference on Nano-technology and Materials Application” at Sài Gòn High-Tech Park (SHTP) in HCM City.

Vương Duy Bảo, grandson of the last Mong King Vương Chí Sình, in late July wrote a letter to the Prime Minister to ask for the return of a century-old palace to his family.

The number of road traffic accidents, traffic-related deaths and injuries in Việt Nam dropped in the first eight months of this year, compared with the same period last year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Child labour remains a great challenge for HCM City authorities although a wide range of measures have been taken to tackle children labour, especially in the informal sector of the economy, officials have said.