The 7.4-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Palu, Donggala and Mamuju in Central Sulawesi on Friday evening has claimed 832 lives, at the time of writing, and injured many others. The earthquake destroyed infrastructure and homes, leaving survivors without shelter.

A dramatic scene unfolded last week in HCM City when three young workers fell from the Giga Mall construction site on Phạm Văn Đồng Boulevard (Hiệp Bình Chánh Ward, Thủ Đức District) and were seriously injured, raising concerns about safety at high-rise construction sites.

Hà Nội is working on gradually digitising the household registration books of over 7.6 million residents, a move to simplify administrative procedures related to residence management.

Chư Pưh District of Gia Lai Province has recently traded its reputation as a pepper-growing capital of the Central Highlands for a very different moniker: “the land of debt”.

Thượng Thơ Palace in HCM City, built in the mid-19^th century as the seat of administration by the French colonialists, needs to be preserved, a seminar heard on Friday.

Four Vietnamese citizens were among the passengers on a plane of Papua New Guinea’s Air Niugini that missed the runway at an airport in Micronesia last week, the Vietnamese Embassy in Indonesia confirmed on Sunday. No one was injured and the passengers have been provided with food and accommodations while they remain in Micronesia. 

In a bid to resolve obstacles to the implementation of the national electronic toll collection (ETC) project, the government has allowed the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to decide the how much revenue to extract from BOT projects to pay for ETC service.

Two people died on the spot while six others were injured in an accident in the early Sunday morning on Highway 55 in Xuyên Mộc District, the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu. 

The remains of two pilots who crashed a training fighter aircraft into a mountain in 1971 have been found in Tam Đảo on the edge of the northern provinces of Thái Nguyên and Vĩnh Phúc.