Việt Nam News

The central coastal city of Đà Nẵng has been selecting volunteers to serve the week-long APEC Economic Summit starting November 5, which is expected to bring together 21 heads of economies and some 4,000 officials and visitors.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) will co-operate with the police to conduct legal proceedings and impose heavy fines against those who sell, exchange and use personal information of flight passengers.

Five agricultural wholesale markets will be built in Hà Nội despite the unresolved food hygiene and operational problems dogging city markets.

Research Laboratories of Saigon High-Tech Park has begun installing a flood warning system at flooding hotspots in HCM City, aiming to alert city residents and suggest alternate traffic routes.

Locals in central Quảng Bình Province are concerned that riverbank erosion along the local Son River will damage their houses and land.

Upgrading old buildings and relocating households living near canals are among the major projects that HCM City aims to carry out now and in the near future, according to city authorities.

The first set of tracks and sleepers will be installed on HCM City’s 19.7km metro line No 1 from Bến Thành Market to Suối Tiên Tourist Park on October 23, the director of the project has said.

The HCM City’s People’s Committee has decided to invest in an electronic toll collection system (ETC) at three toll booths in HCM City.

While loading goods for delivery to customers’ homes, Trần Văn Khương, a delivery worker at Co.opmart Cà Mau, saw a woman’s handbag lying in a trolley. It had obviously been left behind by an absent-minded customer.

Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, deputy chairman of HCM City’s People’s Committee, has the piloting of a one-stop shop for the licensing of construction permits for six months beginning on October 5.

Preferential microfinance loans have helped improve the lives of more than 140,000 poor and low income women and their families over the last 25 years.

International-standard training programmes are being used at many universities in HCM City to help improve the quality of human resources, representatives of higher education institutions said at a conference held yesterday.

In the middle of a forest in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai, classes teaching reading and writing for under-50-year-olds have been held in the evenings for the past two years.

Two passengers died and 14 others were injured in a serious bus accident early yesterday morning on the section of Highway 91 passing through Ô Môn District in Cần Thơ Province.

The deputy director of the city’s Department of Transport has pledged to step up inspections and law enforcement to reduce or eliminate the number of illegal buses operating in HCM City, following requests from authorised transport firms.

It is a risky, dangerous job with little protection and not much income, but many people in Bến Tre Province dive into rivers and search for scrap metal, sunk boats and other pieces of usable junk.

Many national historic relic sites in Hà Nội have been encroached upon for parking areas under the lax management of local authorities, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

Deputy Prime Minister, Trương Hòa Bình, has asked the People’s Committee of northern Hưng Yên Province to inspect Hồng (Red) and Luộc rivers for illegal sand mining.