Việt Nam News

 Traffic Police Department under Ministry of Public Security has considered proposing a demerit point system to tighten disciplines over driving offences.

Some seniors in Việt Nam are proving age is just a number and continue to work well into their twilight years.

The Mekong delta province of Trà Vinh will make every effort to achieve its economic growth target of 12 per cent this year, the Secretary of its Party committee, Trần Trí Dũng, has said.

Hà Nội police on Monday announced that it has launched an official investigation into an alleged parking racket that might involve tens of billions đồng at the city’s biggest wholesale market of Long Biên.

The headquarter buildings of Hà Nội Party committees, people’s councils and people’s committees at commune/ward and district levels must follow design standards in terms of area and height, said the municipal People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung.

 Three people were killed when a bomb left over from the war exploded in Cà Mau Province today, police said.

Large amounts of untreated wastewater leaked out during the garbage disposal process at the landfill in Lộc Hà District, Hà Tĩnh province, allegedly causing significant fish deaths in Can Lộc District, the provincial authorities said.

Việt Nam detected more 12,200 hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) patients nationwide last month, according to latest statistics by the Ministry of Health.

Customs officers at Nội Bài International Airport have seized nearly a tonne of elephant tusks, ivory products and pangolin scales hidden inside cargo packages.

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.