The central province’s public security, in co-operation with transport department, Hội An city and relevant agencies are investigating an illegal sand mining and transport from Cửa Đại beach in Hội An city.
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has urged the two ministries overseeing the Trung Lương-Mỹ Thuận expressway project to speed up construction of the Mỹ Thuận-Cần Thơ stretch so that the entire road can be open to traffic by 2019.
Twenty-eight fishermen from central Quảng Ngãi Province were rescued from the waters off the Trường Sa (Spratly) archipelago after their boat capsized on March 29.
The last silversmith in Hà Nội’s Hàng Bạc Street. Hàng Bạc, one of the oldest streets in Việt Nam, dates back to at least the 18th century and is specialised in making silver jewellery. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh
The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a proposal to build the 3.4km Cần Giờ Bridge above the Soài Rạp River linking Cần Giờ District with the city.
Three men involved in an online soccer gambling ring that engaged in transactions worth some VNĐ900 billion (US$39.6 million) were recently arrested by the police in central Nghệ An Province.
Tonnes of jellyfish and seafood affected by last year’s Formosa toxic spill have not been destroyed in Hà Tĩnh Province’s Lộc Hà District, and have started stinking, e-newspaper Dân Trí reported.
While the number of loudspeakers in Hà Nội’s outlying districts and towns will remain unchanged, only five to 10 will be retained in each of the inner-city wards, at necessary locations, according to local authorities.
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.
