Việt Nam News

National Traffic Safety Committee vice chairman Khuất Việt Hùng has ordered prosecution of the coach driver responsible for the accident that killed four people and seriously injured five others in the central province of Quảng Ngãi yesterday.

All wet markets in Hồ Chí Minh City are likely to be cleared if the People’s Committee approves a proposal by the Department of Health.

Passengers taking domestic flights in Viet Nam can now carry liquids, aerosols and gels on their flights, the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) announced.

The environmental authorities in the Red River Delta province of Ninh Bình said that it would multiply the waste incineration model as a way of dealing with the growing amount of garbage.

Two naval ships set sail for the southern continental shelf on Monday to help the forces and fishermen working there cast their votes on the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Council deputies earlier than scheduled.

A Korean Coast Guard Academy training ship (3011 HAM), which has 170 crew members, arrived in Đà Nẵng yesterday to mark its three-day friendly visit to the city.

District-level authorities in HCM City must promote scientific and technological activities in order to modernise production, a seminar heard in HCM City last week.

The number of dengue fever cases has soared in the southern province of Ninh Thuận and HCM City, although the disease often peaks in the rainy season.

After being unable to sell their catches for many days due to the mass fish deaths, fishermen in the central provinces of Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình have been thrown a lifeline by businesses coming forward to buy from them.

An influx of people returned to big cities, particularly Hà Nội and HCM City, after enjoying the four-day holiday for the Reunification and Labour Day celebrations, causing some traffic congestion along cities’ entrance routes.

US Ambassador Ted Osius and Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh, the deputy minister of Defence, announced yesterday the successful treatment of dioxin-contaminated soil at Đà Nẵng International Airport under a project managed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of National Defence.

Two Vietnamese women scientists have been honoured in Asian Scientist Magazine's The Asian Scientist 100.

A total of 55 traffic accidents occurred during the nationwide holiday, the National Traffic Safety Committee has reported.

Specific measures must be deployed to deal with the consequences of massive fish deaths, and to avoid similar environmental disasters, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said this afternoon in central Hà Tĩnh Province.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) has set up a hotline to help fishermen in the coastal central provinces sell fish caught offshore. The move also aims to eliminate problems for fishermen who suffered losses due to massive fish deaths along beaches in the region over the past weeks.

The Hà Nội Transport Corporation (Transerco) put into operation a new bus route connecting downtown Hà Nội with Nội Bài international airport, costing only VNĐ30,000 (US$1.35) per leg, today. 

The Party, State and the entire government system always consider caring for workers’ lives as a top priority task, as they wish to see the force become strong in number and capacity in the context of intensive international integration, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. 

A 10-year-old child was killed and ten passengers were injured in a coach accident in Nghệ An Province early this morning.