The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has ordered the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll station on National Highway No.1 running through central Bình Định Province to postpone toll collection from October 29 due to the poor quality of the road.

Three fires broke out yesterday in central Nghệ An Province, destroying a number of properties. Fortunately, no fatalities were reported.

The Innovative Technopreneurs Contest, an annual event for the Vietnamese start-up community, is officially open for registration from now until November 5.

Forty nine infants with congenital defects have been saved by the HCM City Children’s Hospital this year thanks to close co-operation between obstetricians and pediatricians, experts told the 13^th National Paediatric Surgery Conference that opened on October 25.

Traffic congestion has cost Hà Nội between US$1 and 1.2 billion per year and has made air pollution five times worse, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy under the Ministry of Transport said.

Border guards in central Hà Tĩnh Province have detained two men for smuggling 32kg of ecstasy and ten bricks of heroin, equivalent to 3.5kg of heroin, from Laos to Việt Nam.

One year after a surgery for cataracts, 75-year-old Trần Thị Tuyết from the northern province of Nam Định is worried about her vision once again. Over the last few days, everything started to go blurry.

Nearly 9,000 State employees in Hà Nội’s State agencies have been made redundant so far this year.

It is rare to see a male kindergarten teacher anywhere in Việt Nam. But deep in the mountains of the northern province of Yên Bái, some men are smashing the unspoken prejudice by showing they can dance and sing and take care of the children as well as anyone.