New app connects scrap collectors, buyers

A set of innovative applications named VECA launched last month has allowed users to call scrap collectors in HCM City.

Tracing waste a new approach for communities

A project aims to help local people earn by thoroughly sorting and treating waste.

Informal labourers struggle to make ends meet in the time of coronavirus

Four people in Đinh Anh Hoà’s family have jammed in a bedsit of 16sq.m for two weeks.

Scrap collector turns in handbag containing 84 million đồng to police

A scrap collector who found a handbag containing VNĐ84.5 million in cash turned it over to the police on Sunday, according to Tháp Mười District police in Đồng Tháp Province.

 

Police uncover bullet warheads in Hưng Yên

Police found a large amount of bullet warheads stored in a household garden in Dân Tiến Commune in the northern province of Hưng Yên’s Khoái Châu District.

Inflammables, explosives endanger waste collectors

Inflammable and explosive materials found in households that earn their living through rubbish collection is endangering the safety of residents, but many underestimate the potential risk.

Volunteers provide health care for homeless

 When most of the houses have turned off their lights and darkness covers the city, Lê Hà Phương, a second-year student at Hà Nội College of Medicine wears her first aid bag filled with medical supplies and free medicine and gets ready to visit special patients.

“Scrap villages” might explode in Hà Nội

Scrap dealers show few signs of fear or increased vigilance after the explosion last week. But local residents are worried that they may be the victims of a fire or explosion caused by the scrap houses someday.

Four killed, 10 injured in explosion in Hà Đông

At least four people were killed, including a 32-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter, and 10 others injured after an explosion occurred on Saturday afternoon in Hà Đông District’s Văn Phú Residential Area.

Two suspects detained for illegally manufacturing guns Police in the southern Tay Ninh province yesterday detained four persons to investigate their activities in the manufacture, storage, sale and illegal use of military weapons.