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.
Việt Nam jumps forward two positions to reach the 45th place on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 released by World Intellectual Property Organisation.
The device is the brainchild of Nguyễn Thanh Trung, a second-year student at HCM City University of Information Technology.
The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation and its partners donated helmets to 500 students of Bá Hiến B Primary School in Vĩnh Phúc Province under its Helmets for Kids programme to teach road safety to and raise awareness of helmet usage among teachers and students.
Local authorities in central Nghệ An Province have decided to stop granting licences to new hydropower projects in the province, highlighting the damage caused by the plants.
Fifty four disadvantaged university students in HCM City received scholarships each worth US$350 from the Lotte Foundation at a ceremony on Wednesday (October 24).
One person died and eight others were injured in two bee attacks in Hữu Kiểm Commune, local authorities in Kỳ Sơn District, the central province of Nghệ An reported.
The annual Pink Hat Day which will take place this Sunday at Crescent Mall in HCM City’s District 7 is calling for hair donations to support breast cancer patients.
At a trial in HCM City on 23 October a government prosecutor said ride-hailing company Grab’s operations have caused losses to taxi giant Vinasun.
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For months, every morning and evening along roads in Hà Nội a young man on a fancy motorbike has been offering pedestrians free rides.
Hà Nội administration needs to enact a group of comprehensive measures to improve traffic safety in the city.
The building of new thermopower plants has recently become a cause célèbre in the country as economic demands and environmental concerns face off, especially with a number of localities rejecting central Government-approved plants.
The central city of Đà Nẵng and Danapha Pharmaceutical JSC have launched a herb farm in a rural mountainous area near the city to provide products used in oriental medicine.
Police in the southern city of Cần Thơ plan to propose less harsh punishments on foreign currency exchanges at unlicensed organisations after a citizen was fined VNĐ90 million (US$4,000) for trading a $100 banknote at a local jewellery shop.
Police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a BMW who allegedly killed one woman and injured another six after she drove into several vehicles at a traffic light in HCM City last weekend.
