HCM City opens new Eastern Bus Terminal The new Eastern Bus Terminal in District 9 will open soon following two years of construction of the first phase of the project.

Tết bus ticket shortage fears

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in HCM City are concerned about the availability of bus tickets and rising prices for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

City’s eastern bus terminal to move

Work to relocate HCM City’s Eastern Bus Terminal (Bến Xe Miền Đông) in Bình Thạnh District will begin in early 2018, allowing tens of thousands of passengers to use daily services, the general director of the Eastern Bus Terminal has said.

 

 

City breaks ground on bus terminal

The Sài Gòn Transportation Mechanical Corporation (SAMCO) has broken ground for construction of the new Eastern Bus Terminal (Bến Xe Miền Đông) in HCM City’s District 9.

 

Thua Thien-Hue houses revolutionaries The Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Department of central Thua Thien-Hue Province this year built and repaired 670 houses for families of revolutionaries and fallen heroes. Costs for construction were contributed by local organisations and donors to mark the 65th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day on July 27.

Volunteers give support to rural students Rbam Y Ngot, 19, and his 63-year-old mother H Get Rbam were understandably nervous when they stepped off the bus in HCM City from Dak Lak Province yesterday.

Food poisoning hits workers in Cai Be More than 120 workers in southern Tien Giang Province's Cai Be District were hit by food poisoning on Monday afternoon after eating lunch at their work place, the South Korean-owned Dream Mekong Co.

VN enlists Japan's help to find sunken ship Transport Minister Dinh La Thang on Thursday handed over a diplomatic note to the Japanese Embassy in Ha Noi, asking the Japanese Government to help search for the missing cargo vessel, Vinalines Queen, and its 22 crew members in area under Japan's search and rescue operation boundaries.

Traffic violators fined at new tunnel Fifty drivers travelling through HCM City's Thu Thiem Tunnel underneath the Sai Gon River have been fined for traffic violations. The tunnel opened to traffic on November 20. Police used camera recordings to identify the drivers. The most common violations involved motorbikes travelling on the lane for cars, and excessive speed. The speed limit is 40 kilometres per hour.

HCM City police nab provincial drug ring Police here have busted a major inter-provincial drug-trafficking ring that has been under investigation since November last year.