Việt Nam News

The transport ministry on Monday slashed toll by half at two toll stations on the Bến Thủy Bridge for residents from some areas in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces.

The 1,300 workers of Taiwanese garment firm Kwong Lung-Meko, whose Cần Thơ City factory was destroyed in a fire, will get help to find jobs, the city’s trade union said.

A fire broke out early on Tuesday at a 500sq.m. timber workshop in a crowded residential area in Đồng Nai Province’s Biên Hòa City, destroying the equipment and wooden products inside.

Citizens can now voice opinions on mechanisms, policies and administrative procedures to the Government on website nguoidan.chinhphu.vn, Minister and head of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng said on Monday.

Hà Nội City’s 197 Steering Committee (tasked with the implementation of traffic order and safety) has asked the city People’s Committee to manage public parking zones on some qualified streets.

Residents living in Ea Tu Commune in Central Highland's Buôn Ma Thuột City are concerned and want solutions to curb the spread of ground water pollution.

All 15 shops and business centres serving only Chinese tourists, located at Hạ Long City, Quảng Ninh northern province were closed under decision of local people’s committee, according to zing.vn.

Việt Nam has targeted of turning tourism into the spearhead economic sector of the northwest region by 2030, deputy head of the Northwest Steering Committee Hầu A Lềnh said yesterday.

Living in a small alley with no name on Hàng Chiếu Street, one of old streets in Hà Nội, Nguyễn Thị Nga (not her real name) and 11 other people in her family share a nine-square-metre room with one storey and one attic.

At about 5pm on the last day of January, 24-year-old Nguyễn Đức Hiển from An Giang Province jumped off a fishing vessel as it was approached the ashore near Cát Lở Port in Vũng Tàu City.

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.