Việt Nam News

A new road safety programme called Safety Delivered inaugurated today in HCM City will work with young and inexperienced motorcyclists to improve their driving behaviours and seek to increase child helmet use.

The second Social Ideas 2017 competition organised by the HCM City Department of Science and Technology’s e-newspaper Khám phá (Discovery) was launched in HCM City today.

A fire broke out in the protected pine forest in Hà Nội's outlying district of Sóc Sơn on Monday, resulting in the destruction of 100 hectares.

The Hà Nội People’s Procuracy on Tuesday initiated legal proceedings against four people for using fake seals of state organisations and cheating people of money with false promises.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed a fee for parking and commercial use of pavements and roadsides.

In a move to relieve traffic pressure and environment pollution, Hà Nội is considering banning motorbikes entirely by 2030, as well as other measures like fee collection in rush hours and stricter regulations of app-based ride hailing services.

More public-private partnerships are needed in the private healthcare sector as public hospitals and clinics cannot meet the demand across the country, experts have said.

Measures to ensure food safety heated the National Assembly yesterday as NA deputies spent the whole day reviewing the implementation of food safety laws and regulations from 2011-2016.

Children and elderly people were hospitalised in their droves over last weekend in Hà Nội as temperatures reached a historic peak.

HCM City’s Party Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has urged the city to call for further investment in infrastructure and to promote public-private partnerships.

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The People’s Court of Đắk Lắk on Monday opened the first court of instance hearing in the fraudulent case related to online shopping and training company MB24 (muaban24.vn)’s branch in Đắk Lắk Province.

Ordinary people will soon have chance to access to National Assembly meeting, said Nguyễn Hạnh Phúc, Chairman of National Assembly Office.

A fire occurred at 6am on Monday at two automobile’s tire shops with total area of 700sq.m in Nghĩa Hòa Commune, Tư Nghĩa District in the central province of Quảng Ngãi.

Hà Nội, HCM City, Hải Phòng, Đà Nẵng and Cần Thơ will be the first five cities in the country to sell plate numbers at an auction.

The National Traffic Safety Committee will send four inspection teams to check traffic safety across the country this month, said Trương Hòa Bình, standing Deputy Prime Minister and committee chairman.

Seamen caught a bluefin tuna weighing 240kg in the sea off the Trường Sa (Spratly) archipelago on Sunday.

The central province plans to dredge the Cổ Cò River with total investment of VNĐ850 billion (US$38 million), of which 50 per cent from the State Budget’s Climate Change fund, later this year.