Việt Nam News

HCM City’s Transport Department has built barriers on pavements along some streets in the city centre to prevent motorists from encroaching upon them.

An electric bus using renewable solar energy will be run on trial basis this year on two main roads of Cát Bà Island in the northern Hải Phòng City.

Three factories in Nam Quang industrial zone in the northern province of Hà Giang have been found releasing untreated wastewater into Lô River.

 Severe erosion at the riverbank is putting the lives of hundred households in Nha Trang City at risk while local authorities lack money to comprehensively tackle the problem.

The claim that lumberjacks attacked officials of the management board of the northeast Chư Păh preventive forest to rob logs was untrue.

The online poll on loudspeakers conducted by the Hà Nội’s Department of Information and Communication re-opened on Thursday afternoon after a three-day temporary closure because of a technical error.

Train ticket prices will be reduced on the North-South railway route and some other routes following the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday period, Việt Nam Railway Corporation (VNR) said on Thursday.

Forest rangers in Yok Đôn National Park in the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk have this month started using bicycles for patrolling instead of going on foot.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam on Thursday asked Hà Nội to put in place an individual medical records system for local residents as soon as possible.

The National Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue sent an announcement yesterday telling provincial and local authorities in northern and coastal provinces, ministries and agencies to prepare for coming cold weather.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp will continue to closely monitor the illegal breeding of crawfish, which has caused serious damage to crops in the area.

Việt Nam plans to invest in its transport infrastructure comprehensively while linking development strategies among sectors in order to develop a multi-modal transport environment, making the country the gateway connecting East Asia to the Indian Ocean.

Huỳnh Quốc Toản, a resident from Phú Tân Commune in Cà Mau Province’s Phú Tân District, said he no longer worried about his house being ruined by natural disasters.

Biologists have found 22 animal species, including nine endangered ones, through a wildlife supervision programme in the Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve near the central city of Đà Nẵng.

A new species of Shitake mushroom called Lentinula platinedodes has been found in Cát Tiên National Park in Đồng Nai and Lâm Đồng provinces.

Service and entertainment businesses in the West Lake area will be closed for a cleaning and renovating project, the Hà Nội People’s Committee said in an official document.

After being trained by doctors from the Thủ Đức District Hospital, surgeons at another local hospital in HCM City, District 11, on Thursday performed their first hip replacement operation on a 98-year-old patient.

Pollution caused by different trade villages in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are adversely affecting local residents’ health and the economic development, according to a new study.