Việt Nam News

Thanh Hóa Province’s authorised agency officers handle 4.5 tonnes of rotten animal guts yesterday.

HCM City will install odour-control manholes to eliminate the foul smell emanating from sewers and reduce flood risks, according to its People's Committee.

The number of overloaded vehicles plying on roads is high because of the mismanagement by provinces and cities, Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN), said.

Certain types of vehicles will be exempt from paying toll at Quán Hàu Toll Station and toll stations belong to traffic infrastructure investor TASCO in central Quảng Bình Province, said Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam.

The Transport Corporation Hà Nội (Transerco) on Thursday introduced two bus routes to suburban areas – Nam Thăng Long-Xuân Hòa and Nghĩa Đô Park-Đông Anh – not covered by the service before.

Residents living around the Hoàng Cầu Lake in Đống Đa District were greeted to the ghastly sight of a large number of dead fish in the lake on Thursday afternoon.

Residents and urban planning experts have expressed their support for a proposal put forward earlier this week by the Department of Transport in HCM City to lease pavements for commercial operations.

Boat tours along HCM City’s Nhiêu Lộc-Thị Nghè Canal, which were expected to make use of the urban waterway to boost water tourism in the city, have failed to attract tourists after two years of operation.

Pork without clear origins will not be allowed to be sold at the Hóc Môn and Bình Điền wholesale markets in HCM City from July, the city administration has said.

The electronic visa (e-visa) pilot scheme has had a positive impacts on Việt Nam’s tourism industry since it was implemented at the beginning of the year.

The first death caused by rabies in HCM City since 2010 has occurred in Gò Vấp District, according to the Department of Health.

The Hải Phòng City’s People’s Committee has decided to limit groundwater extraction as signs of groundwater pollution have appeared in some inner city areas.

Several major hospital construction projects that would have provided residents of the capital and its surroundings with thousands of beds have been abandoned over the past decade.

The Hà Nội Police caught a 26-year-old man for allegedly making fake seals and documents of state organisations on Thursday.

It’s business as usual for around 1,800 Vietnamese workers in Qatar, as the Middle Eastern nation faces the biggest diplomatic crisis in decades, the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has announced.

The National Committee for Traffic Safety, in co-operation with Ford Việt Nam, has donated eight "Drunk Driving Suits" and smart camera systems for traffic supervision to drivers’ training  centres in the central city.

Construction on a section of a Y-shaped flyover at Gò Vấp intersection, which connects Nguyễn Oanh and Phạm Ngũ Lão streets in HCM City, began on Wednesday (June 7), according to the city’s Department of Transport.

The HCM City Department of Education has announced that it does not plan to hike tuition fees at public schools next year and has sought the People’s Committee’s approval for it.