More than 1,700 households in three remote communes in the mountainous province of Lai Châu are temporarily isolated due to prolong heavy rains, Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday.

Hundreds of residents from Quy Nhơn in the central province of Bình Định have been setting up blockades over the past two days along a section of Highway 1A to prevent dust-billowing lorries from passing through Bùi Thị Xuân Ward .

Twelve persons were severely injured in a collision between a coach and a trailer in Thuận Nam District of central Ninh Thuận Province on Wednesday evening.

A bridge collapsed leaving a lorry being hang on it in an accident happened at about 7am on Friday in Đạ K’nàng Commune, Đam Rông District in the Central Highlands of Lâm Đồng.

Pressure from local media and public has prompted an investigation by ranger authorities into the origin of three large perennial trees found at a plot in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed an urgent notice on the clearance of export goods at Tân Thanh border gate in the northern province of Lạng Sơn.

Managers of the Tân Thanh Border Guards have worked to resolve seasonal traffic jams at the border gate over the past four days, according to Đoàn Tuấn Anh, deputy director of the Tân Thanh Customs Department.

A new regime of exemptions and a 50 per cent fee reduction for commercial vehicles registered in a nearby ward will be applied at the controversial Cần Thơ-Phụng Hiệp toll booth from January 20.

Traffic police of different provinces fined over 1,300 drivers for violating regulations on Highway 1A, stretching from the northern province of Hà Nam to the central province of Nghệ An.