HCM City has asked the Government for an additional US$800 million for the metro No 2 line from Bến Thành to Tham Lương to accommodate design changes and permission to delay completion until 2024.
It has been a fortnight since the Damrey storm swept over Khánh Hòa Province. But employees of local companies are still grappling with an uncertain future, as the textile factories, cashew processing plants and seafood farms where they worked were seriously damaged by the storm.
Seven dams and reservoirs in Quảng Nam and Thừa Thiên-Huế provinces began releasing water in preparation for the torrential rain that was already pouring down over the central region.
Vietnamese children have joined millions of kids around the world to raise their voice to save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfill their potential.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam asked relevant agencies to remove works illegally constructed under a bridge on the Hà Nội-Hải Phòng Expressway.
Sơn La police has arrested 15 people, most of whom are officials, for their alleged breaches in compensation work for land clearance of the colossal Sơn La hydropower plant.
Nguyễn Hồng Quân, 38, used to be considered one among the richest men in Ngã Ba Village, Gia Phù Commune in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La.
The Department of Information and Communications of central Thánh Hóa Province fined a woman VNĐ5 million (US$222) for spreading rumours about children being kidnapped on her Facebook page.
The first library for autistic youths in HCM City, WAD Library, opened last Sunday (November 19) in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a resolution to sustainably develop the Mekong Delta as apart of an effort to cope with climate change.
Since 2012, Lieutenant Colonel Ngô Minh Tuệ of Hải Phòng City Police has assisted the families of 22 fishermen in moving from small boats—vulnerable to overturning amid waves caused by cargo ships—to homes in a new village in Máy Chai Commune.
Some VNĐ4.64 billion (US$206,000) was collected by the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry HCM City (KOCHAM HCMC) at the 14th KOCHAM Charity Night, organized on Friday in HCM City.
HCM City and Military telecom group Viettel on November 17 signed an agreement to develop the southern metropolis into a smart city during 2017-2020.
Leaders of the HCM City Party Committee and People’s Committee on Friday had a meeting with educators in the city on occasion of the 35th anniversary of Việt Nam Teachers’ Day (November 20).
A Vietnamese pilot was killed in a mid-air crash between a helicopter and an aircraft in the United Kingdom, the Ministry of National Defence announced on Sunday.
Traditional slaughterhouses in HCM City must either close down or modernise their facilities and relocate to outlying districts by the end of the year, Vũ Văn Hoan, the spokesman for HCM City People’s Committee, has said.
The HCM City Department of Construction has called for amending the agricultural zoning master plan, promoting housing development and changing the construction inspection model to reduce violations, which increased by 16 per cent year-on-year in the first 10 months of this year.
Nearly 1,000 people registered to donate their tissue and organs at a health festival in the northern province of Nam Định on Friday.
“Everyone has their own interest. For me, rescuing wild animals is my passion,” said Nguyễn Thanh Long from the Central Highlands’s province of Đắk Lắk.
For six years, Vũ Văn Quang has helped hundreds of students cross the road safely. His two daily shifts at Trung Sơn Trầm Primary School, from 10 to 10:45 in the morning and from 16:15 to 17:00 in the afternoon, are inspired by disturbing accidents he saw years ago.
