Ministry wants to restart railway project

The Ministry of Transport wants to secure investment from the private sector to complete the Yên Viên – Cái Lân Railway project, which connects Yên Viên Station in Hà Nội with Cái Lân Station in the northern province of Quảng Ninh.

New toll tech

Electronic toll collection started to be applied on a Build-Operate-Transfer tollbooth on the stretch of National Route 1A in central Quảng Trị Province yesterday.

Kiên Giang province to supervise bird nest farming

Kiên Giang’s People’s Committee Chairman Phạm Vũ Hồng has asked six departments and sectors to work with local authorities to re-examine the area for bird nest farming in residential localities.

Cold wave from China to grip northern VN

Cold air from China is approaching Việt Nam and is likely to have a direct impact on the northern and central provinces, the Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre has reported.

Navibank officials get up to 13 years in jail for scam

Ten former Nam Việt Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank) officials, who were indicted for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences”, were sentenced to seven to 13 years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.

Quảng Nam to investigate massive fish death

The Quảng Nam Province authorities and a local gold mining company are probing if a rupture in the wastewater dam triggered the massive fish deaths in two rivers some days ago.

 

3 defendants charged in dialysis deaths

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình Province has released charges against three accused for the death of eight persons after undergoing kidney dialysis at the provincial General Hospital.

Poor mountainous villages struggle to pay debts

Receiving billions of đồng in compensation, several residents in Nước Trong water reservoir project area, Tây Trà District’s Trà Thọ Commune, thought they’d be able to escape debts they had accrued through high interest loans.

Lottery vendor aces exam to become civil servant

Kim Thái, 37, a Khmer man living in the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng, wears a broad-brim hat to walk the streets of Long Phú Town, selling lottery tickets to earn a living as he has for the past 13 years.

All that glitters isn't gold

A concert last Saturday in southern Cần Thơ Province was abruptly interrupted when a woman and several of her friends jumped on the stage claiming her gold bar (37.5gr which is worth approximately US$1,500) was stolen.

Local business in shock victory over taxman

A local business in HCM City attempted and succeeded in overturning a decision made by a district tax office. According to the business’ owner, he was wrongly taxed $15,000 in VAT and made to pay a fine of more than $2,000 for failing to declare income from his sales of rice husks.

Teachers at remote mountainous school find love

With the desire to help minority children gain a brighter future, teachers have volunteered to leave their families for the remote Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Province of Kon Tum to work at the Măng Ri Boarding School, reported the Lao Động (Labour) Newspaper.

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