Traffic safety improves in first half of the year due to pandemic, laws

According to the National Committee for Traffic Safety, between December 15, 2019, and June 14, 2020, 6,790 traffic accidents were reported nationwide, killing 3,242 people and injuring 4,939 people.

Hot weather to continue scorching northern and central Việt Nam

The extreme heat is predicted to last for the next 10 days.

Guterres supports UN cross-border aid in Syria United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he supports the extension of a cross-border program to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria, according to a Security Council report obtained by AFP on Wednesday.

Time to tackle oversized trucks: official

Lê Xuân Tiến, Deputy Chief Inspector from the Hà Nội Public Transport Department, talks to Kinh tế & đô thị (Economy and Urban Affairs) newspaper on proposed sanctions for heavy and oversized trucks violating traffic laws in Hà Nội's inner districts

Auto consumers expected to enjoy 50 per cent cut in registration fee The Ministry of Finance has officially asked the Government to cut 50 per cent of the registration fee for customers who buy locally-produced and assembled automobiles.

More than 50 dead in migrant shipwreck off Tunisia More than 50 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, died when a boat carrying migrants bound for Italy sank off Tunisia, a health official said on Thursday in an updated toll.

Supermarkets to help lychee farmers sell their produce Several large supermarket chains have pledged to support the consumption of lychees as the fruit enters the harvest season in the northern provinces of Bắc Giang and Hải Dương, the two biggest growers of the fruit in the country.

Conference seeks ways to promote lychee consumption

More than 2,300 people attended a teleconference on Saturday promoting lychee consumption at home and abroad held in the northern province of Bắc Giang.

The heat, and the salt, is on

On the 51ha salt field of Vạn Nam Co-operative in Diễn Vạn Commune, Nghệ An’s Diễn Châu District, dozens of people are working under the summer heat.

Soldiers share water with local people in Gia Lai Province The prolonged drought and extreme hot weather has dried up water resources in the border district of Đức Cơ causing difficulties for the locals’ lives and production.