Blood reserves at the National Blood Centre under the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion would only be enough to cover the next three days, warned Phạm Tuấn Dương, deputy director of the institute.

The Ministry of Public Security has started an investigation into an acid attack on an overseas Vietnamese in the central province of Quảng Ngãi during the Lunar New Year holiday.

Hundreds of hectares of crops and trees were damaged after heavy rainfall and whirlwinds swept through a northern mountainous province on Sunday afternoon.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee is seeking approval from the Ministry of Transport for continuing to open parking lots under four bridges until 2023 as a solution to the shortage of parking spaces in the city.

The Hà Nội Transport and Services Corporation (Transerco) has launched two bus routes running from Gia Lâm Coach Station and Kim Mã Street to carry visitors to Hương (Perfume) Pagoda festival in Hương Sơn Commune, Mỹ Đức District.

Now the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday has ended and schools have resumed, many classrooms in mountainous localities still feel strangely empty as local students have not returned.

The HCM City Department of Transport aims to have 75 per cent of the new buses running on clean fuel by the end of 2020.

Traditional slaughterhouses are expected to be shut down this year after industrial scale facilities open, but owners of older slaughterhouses believe there is not enough time to shift fully to the new mechanised processing, according to a report in Người Lao Động (The Labourer) newspaper.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a series of conditions required to set up a foreign-invested vocational training institution in Việt Nam, expected to take effect from March 20.