Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Transport will quickly fix shortcomings related to collecting fee at Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll stations in the country.

Many roads and pavements in HCM City have again been encroached by illegal parking areas and street vendors after city authorities halted their campaign to clear the pavements four months ago.

When it comes to social housing or affordable housing for low-income earners, funding is usually a key factor in such projects. However, once the projects are completed, problems in planning, investment management and efficiency tend to crop up.

With demand for sand for construction rising even as prices are skyrocketing, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Đình Dũng has recommended the use of other materials in construction in place of natural sand.

The People’s Court of outlying Mỹ Đức district of Hà Nội on Wednesday pronounced sentences at the first instance trial on law violations regarding land management in the district’s Đồng Tâm commune.

Authorities and people across the country are joining hands and promoting all effort to support locals in northern mountain provinces that have been hard hit by torrential rains and floods due to storm in the past week.

The Cần Thơ Department of Health yesterday signed package no.1 for the construction of a 500-bed oncology hospital with a joint venture comprising three foreign and two Vietnamese companies.

"I am poor but fortunately I can help other poor people. Doing this will give me peace of mind and help me sleep well at night, " said Lê Văn Thái, a bike repairman on Hồng Lạc Street in HCM City’s Tân Bình District.

Construction of a tunnel under the Tân Phong intersection in Biên Hòa city began on Tuesday (August 8).

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City have performed the country’s first robotic surgery on a patient with liver cancer.

The HCM City Department of Information and Communications yesterday announced the launch of the 9th Information and Communication Technology Awards.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked concerned organisations to investigate two consecutive breakdowns in which a train was derailed twice at Yên Viên Railway Station on the Hà Nội-Lào Cai railway route last Sunday and Monday.

Over 12.7ha of remediated land at the Đà Nẵng International Airport, part of a major Agent Orange clean-up project, will be returned to the Ministry of Transport under an agreement signed yesterday. 

The environment ministry has agreed not to dump nearly one million cubic metre of waste mud discarded by a power plant into Bình Thuận Province’s sea following a public outcry against the plan.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) has called on local and international organisations, individuals and the community to help those affected by heavy rains and floods in the northern provinces.

Humane Society International - Việt Nam (HSI) is calling on the South African government to honour its commitment to protect rhinos by refusing permits for an auction of rhinoceros horns.

Stargazers in Việt Nam will get the opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower, the largest one this year, between Saturday midnight and early Sunday morning.

Rescue forces are trying to prevent an oil spill after a ship carrying 18 tonnes of diesel sank in the waters between Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An provinces on Sunday.