About 8,300 households with more than 31,000 individuals in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An’s Cần Giuộc District have begun to get tap water from HCM City under its programme to provide water to neighbouring provinces.
Two Korean Navy ships – Kang Gam Chan and Hwacheon – with 633 crew members began a three-day visit to the city yesterday.
Việt Nam aims to improve road infrastructure to ensure traffic safety and reduce traffic congestion and the number of accidents, an official said at a meeting held yesterday in HCM City.
At the beginning of this school year, teachers and students at Phan Ngọc Nhân Primary School in the central province of Quảng Nam were very curious about the used shipping container that had materialised in their school yard over the summer break.
Trạm Tấu District, one of the poorest in the country, has over ten makeshift schools that face great challenges. Of these, the Tà Lù Đằng kindergarten encounters perhaps the most significant obstacles to success.
The HCM City police have arrested 13 people for allegedly stealing aviation fuel that was being transported in tanker trucks from the Nhà Bè Petroleum General Depot on the city’s outskirts.
The planned pilot run of the first elevated train in Hà Nội next month will be delayed amid lagging construction progress and financial difficulties.
The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) has released an emergency appeal to help victims of Doksuri typhoon in the central region, especially hardest-hit Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh provinces.
The Police General Department has suspended 13 jail officers for negligence that resulted in the escape of two death-row prisoners from a prison in Hà Nội last week.
PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Saturday visited the central provinces hardest hit by Typhoon Doksuri to inspect recovery efforts.
Senior lieutenant-general Tô Lâm, a member of the Poliburo and Minister of Public Security, yesterday sent a letter praising various police offices for capturing two death-row prisoners who escaped a prison in Hà Nội last Sunday.
A fire occurred at the Thành Đô Supermarket on Giải Phóng Street, Phương Liệt Ward in Hà Nội’s Thanh Xuân District at about 1am on Saturday.
Unlike many medical students of the same age who want to work in big cities like Hà Nội after graduation, Nguyễn Chiến Quyết, from the northern province of Hưng Yên, chose to work in the northern mountainous areas with the hope of helping people there.
Trần Thị Chang, president of the Vietnamese women’s club in Malaysia, was worried. More and more Vietnamese children were growing up in the country, but there was no Vietnamese class for them to learn their mother tongue.
HCM City Department of Transport and the Department of Justice’s auction centre has unanimously approved an auction for advertising on the sides of the city’s public buses at the end of this month.
Five-in-one Pentaxim combination vaccine has temporarily run out in HCM City, however, many drugs companies say they will import more vaccine doses next month, according to the city Department of Health.
Urban Traffic Management Board No.1 under HCM City’s Department of Transport last Saturday (September 16) is testing one-way traffic for vehicles on the flyover at Cộng Hòa-Hoàng Hoa Thám intersection in Tân Bình District.
The Ministry of Defence on Saturday started the construction of infrastructure to address dioxin contamination at Biên Hòa Airport in Biên Hòa City, the southern province of Đồng Nai.
Unless city authorities restructure Nội Bài International Airport soon, it will face serious overloading over the next few years, Minister of Transport Trương Quang Nghĩa warned at a recent meeting.
Everyday, millions of containers make their way to and from the ports of HCM City. They may hold food, electronics, clothing, toys, cars, lumber: virtually every item imaginable.
