Việt Nam News

A poster contest on the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Year 2017, which will be hosted by Việt Nam next year, was officially launched yesterday.

HCM City has announced measures to ease traffic congestion, which has worsened recently, during the upcoming festival season.

Traffic safety was improved in 2016 with decreases in all types of accidents and the number of deaths and injuries, it was reported at a national conference of traffic police in Đà Nẵng City yesterday.

The People’s Court of Quảng Ninh Province yesterday sentenced to death six defendants in a drug trafficking ring, which involved the trade of more than 5,000 heroin cakes.

In 2017 HCM City will focus its spending on key construction works and seven breakthrough programmes like relocating people living along slums in canals and building new apartments replacing old, dilapidated ones, a conference heard yesterday.

Poverty reduction programmes have had positive impacts on the living standards of ethnic minorities, but the challenge of sustaining the gains remains, experts say.

The sight glass of a steam boiler at Hoà Bình Sugarcane JSC in northern Hoà Bình Province recently exploded, killing a worker who was operating the boiler.

Trans-provincial coach operators yesterday refused to take on passengers at Mỹ Đình coach station in protest against the route changes by the Hà Nội Department of Transport.

There are huge crowds at all traffic police stations in Hà Nội that accept registrations for the transfer of bike ownership, as the December 31 deadline draws to a close.

The National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) will focus investment on increasing vaccination rate and quality in mountainous, remote and difficult areas in 2017.

Hà Nội will operate additional buses and trains to serve people travelling during the New Year (this weekend to Monday) and Tết holidays (from January 26 to February 1).

The largest ever number of rare Java pangolin (Manis javanica), 54 individuals, were released into the wild recently by the Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) organisation in coordination with Cúc Phương National Park and the Hanoi Wildlife Rescue Centre.

Four individuals and 38 organisations received the 2016 Environmental Awards from the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment on Wednesday for their outstanding contributions to environmental protection.

In HCM City, Electricity of Việt Nam plans to accept bill payments only through banks and other modern platforms starting at the end of next year, putting an end to its conventional home collection service.

HCM City should not set itself the too ambitious goal of eradicating poverty by 2018, a senior former leader has said.

More than 200 leaders of news agencies, journalist associations, journalism training institutes, as well as scientists and journalists from across the country gathered in Hà Nội yesterday at a conference entitled “Journalism after 30 years of đổi mới (renewal process) - theoretical and practical issues.”

Noise pollution in big cities and urban areas has become more severe, badly affecting residents’ quality of life, but punishment of polluters remains ineffective.

The central city of Đà Nẵng started construction yesterday of a tunnel at the junction of Điện Biên Phủ, Nguyễn Tri Phương and Lê Độ streets, one of the busiest roundabouts in the city.