In 2017, some 22 people died and 46 were injured each day due to traffic accidents nationwide.
The HCM City Customs Department on Tuesday (Jan 2) began piloting the use of the Việt Nam Automated System for Seaport Customs Management at Lotus Port in District 7 and SP-ITC International Container Terminal in District 9.
Funtional forces found a dead male body in a house on the Alley 279, Hoàng Mai Street, Hoàng Mai District. The body bears similar charasteristics as Nguyễn Hồng Lâm, head of Quốc Oai District People’s Committee, who is missing several days before.
The HCM City Traffic Safety Committee on January 3 kicked off the 2018 Traffic Safety Year Campaign with an aim to reduce the number of traffic incidents, deaths and injuries by 5 per cent compared to last year’s figures.
The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) has launched a humanitarian campaign to help the poor and Agent Orange (AO) victims ahead of the upcoming traditional Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked ministries, sectors and localities to make concrete plans to realise the National Action Programme on Zero Hunger by the year 2025.
The capital city’s People’s Procuracy has completed indictments to prosecute five foreigners for their criminal act.
The capital city’s police on Tuesday arrested a man for smuggling cigarettes and cigars.
Bình Thuận Province People’s Committee on Tuesday opened the provincial Public Administration Centre for public use.
Typhoon Bolaven, with the strongest wind speed of 75km per hour near its eye, entered the East Sea on Wednesday morning and become the first tropical storm to hit the East Sea this year.
An explosion reportedly killed at least two children and injured eight people early Wednesday morning at a scrap warehouse in the northern province of Bắc Ninh’s Quan Độ Village in Yên Phong District.
A group of reporters from the Nhân Dân (People) newspaper and one from the Người làm báo (The Journalist) magazine have won the top prizes at a national press contest promoting the fight against corruption and wastefulness in the country.
The HCM City Department of Transport has begun construction of a pedestrian overpass in Phú Nhuận District’s Gia Định Park.
Vietnam Railways (VNR) will institute improvements in service quality and infrastructure to compete with the civil aviation and road transport sectors in 2018.
Việt Nam plans each year to send 100,000 to 120,000 labourers to other countries by 2020, according to Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs.
The Franco-Vietnamese (FV) Hospital plans to invest US$5 million in building a “hi-tech medical centre” in Đà Nẵng City.
Tết (Lunar New Year) bonuses in HCM City are expected to rise 10.8 per cent compared to last year, with the average bonus being VNĐ8.3 million (US$364), according to a report from the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Doctors at the Hà Nội Medical University Hospital have successfully removed a large tumor from a man’s testicles.