One female passenger was killed and five others were injured early Monday morning when their coach collided with a truck travelling on the Nội Bài-Lào Cai Expressway in the province’s Lập Thạch District.
Police in the northern province of Lào Cai on Sunday detained a taxi driver for overspeeding and showing a fake press card to get off easily.
Three Colombian nationals involved in property theft in Hà Nội were arrested at the Cầu Treo International Border Gate in central Hà Tĩnh Province.
A proposal to increase the number of electric cars to boost Hà Nội’s tourism has been rejected by the capital city’s People’s Committee.
In front of the headquarters of the Hà Nội Department of Planning and Architecture on Tràng Thi Street, dozens of motorbikes and cars stop, wait for a while, look around, hoping against hope that by some miracle a parking space will materialise.
A number of children joined a painting festival with the theme of preventing children sexual abuse which was held by the Central Council for the Young Pioneers yesterday in Hà Nội.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs announced on Sunday that it will temporarily stop enrolling workers from 58 districts to work in South Korea this year.
A range of fresh policies coming into effect this month will force major changes nationwide, including registration before drawing money from the State budget and energy labels on cars and motorbikes.
The HCM City Department of Construction is seeking ideas of a new system of house numbering to resolve the house number chaos in the city.
The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bắc Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials, Major General Hồ Sỹ Tiến, director of the department, announced Saturday.
It has been eight years since Ly Van Hấp, a retired official, made use of his ancestors’ land and opened a wet market for poor vendors on T1 Street in HCM City’s Tân Phú District.
Hoàng Lê Kha High School of Tây Ninh Province and Trần Đại Nghĩa and Mạc Đĩnh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes in the Open, Interschool and SRobot Clip at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot), organisers announced last Saturday.
Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum so that children can better protect themselves from sexual abuse.
Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. But in reality, many people still face difficulties receiving the benefits because of ineffectiveness in policy implementation.
Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, experts said.
The central city’s construction department has suspended construction of a coastal new international Đa Phước urban project in the downtown Hải Châu district due to a lack of a completion report on environtment assessment.
The body of the last sailor aboard the Hải Thành 26-BLC cargo ship that sank off the coast of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province was found on Saturday.
The second body of a crewmember from the wrecked ship Hải Thành 26 off the coastal province’s waters has been recovered by marine rescuers and returned to his family yesterday afternoon.
The southern province police department said that the Kwong Lung Meko Company didn’t follow its fire prevention obligations properly, leading to a devastating fire last week on March 23.
Vietnam News Agency (VNA) General Director Nguyễn Đức Lợi yesterday called for training co-operation with French wire service AFP.
