Việt Nam News

HCM City’s Traffic Safety Committee and Transport Department has said it plans a series of strong measures in order to reduce traffic jams.

Sài Gòn Port Zone 1 customs in HCM City has decided to prosecute Hùng Cứ Company for smuggling after a surprise check uncovered undeclared goods worth over VNĐ630 million (US$27,600). 

A fire broke out this morning on Phạm Phú Thứ Street, District 11, in HCM City, damaging an over 100sq.m. house.

The Ministry of Health has ordered provinces and cities across the country to urgently conduct appropriate measures to prevent the entry of the A/H7N9 virus, commonly known as bird flu.

The southern province of Bình Phước's authority has apologised for violations relating to deforestation occurred in the province.

Sixty six liver transplants have so far been performed across the country, with 34 donors being alive and 32 brain dead, according to Việt Nam Society of Organ Transplantation.

A crew member of a Vietnamese ship was reported killed and six others abducted in waters off the Filipino island of Mindanao.

The provincial police, in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Police, recently apprehended two suspects allegedly responsible for the murder of a truck driver on February 14.

A serious collision between a train and another vehicle occurred this afternoon in Phú Lộc District, Thừa Thiên – Huế Province, killing at least three people.

An ethnic man, who was under intensive treatment, died of alcohol poisoning in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu yesterday.

The Institute of Environmental Technology under the Việt Nam Academy of Science and Technology has taken samples from a 50-metre streak of reddish seawater that appeared in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Sơn Dương Port last Friday for tests.

Việt Nam Lottery Company found the winner of its jackpot worth VNĐ41.6 billion (US$1.8 million) on Sunday night.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Transport to develop a plan for a new entrance at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport.

More than 400 university students attended a debate on Saturday about protecting the pangolin, the world’s most commonly trafficked mammal.

The Hà Nội People’s Procuracy has proposed the death sentence for Giang Kim Đạt, the former official at a subsidiary of Việt Nam’s Ship Building Industry Corporation, or Vinashin, a state-owned shipbuilding giant.

Sơn La Police have discovered two cases of explosive substances being stored and used in the past week.

Bắc Ninh Police yesterday announced that they have apprehended two men wanted for murder and the robbery of more than 34 tonnes of steel on Tuesday in Thứa Town, Lương Tài District.

All boats and floating homes should be removed from the West Lake in Hà Nội by Monday, February, 20, local authorities have confirmed.