Việt Nam News

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.

Nearly 600 people registered to donate their organs for scientific research at an event held at the Giác Ngộ Pagoda in HCM City’s District 10 on Saturday.

Household-owned timber plantations must be substantially reformed in order to yield sustainable profits for their owners.

HCM City is eyeing bottom-up administrative reforms, a meeting between city leaders and commune and ward leaders heard on Tuesday.

More than 80 per cent of respondents surveyed about the proposed train design for the city’s metro line 3 rated the plans highly and over 90 per cent of them said they would love to try the new means of transport when the metro line is officially operational.

Local people in craft villages that make fishing nets and other tools are now busy serving the needs of fishermen during the annual flooding season.

The use of agricultural by-products for feeding livestock and as substrate for other crops has helped farmers around the country earn extra incomes while also protecting the environment.

Nearly 28,000 out of 154,000 food businesses in Hà Nội were found to have violated food safety regulations and faced fines of more than VNĐ14 billion (US$594,700) since August last year.

HCM City should learn lessons from major cities in developed countries on how to become a smart city, speakers said at an international conference held on Sept 28 in the city.

Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quảng Ngãi Province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.

HCM City authorities have decided to increase parking fees at all lots run by private operators in the inner city from October 1.

Quảng Ngãi Marine Port Authority yesterday organised a search and rescue drill at sea in Bình Thuận Commune, Bình Sơn District, central province of Quảng Ngãi.

A group of students from the Foreign Trade University of Hà Nội won first prize at the ‘Start-up Francophone 2018’ competition during the regional final round held on Friday in Hà Nội.

Kids at HCM City’s Tân Bình District Kindergarten yesterday saw a skit that showed them how to push straws into empty cartons after drinking milk and then flattening, folding and disposing of the cartons properly to save space and make their collection, sorting and recycling easier.

The British Embassy launched a safe motorbike riding campaign called “Know Safety No Accidents” on Thursday (Sept 28) in HCM City.