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A rear-end collision between five cars this morning occurred on Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay expressway, causing prolonged traffic congestion.

At the end of May 2023, the beginning of the rainy season increased land erosion along rivers and canals in the Mekong Delta including the Tien River, Hau River and Ca Mau peninsula.

The Ministry of Transport has just assigned the My Thuan Project Management Board to make a pre-feasibility study report for the Can Tho 2 Bridge project towards connection completion of the North-South expressway as planned.

On May 30, the construction investment project for Phase 2 of Vinh Tuy Bridge, which spans the Red River, successfully concluded its final connection.

The capital city of Hanoi has launched its one-month anti-speeding communications campaign starting May 30 in a bid to raise drivers’ awareness of the matter and ensure road safety.

President Ho Chi Minh’s stay in London was the very outset of his revolutionary career, which had a profound effect on him, especially the development of his own thinking, British historian John Callow said.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) announced that electronic identification account (e-ID account) at level 2 associated with passenger biometric authentication will be piloted in airports nationwide from June 1 to August 1.

The Party, State, as well as the whole political system, have strongly intervened to better protect children on the internet environment in the context of risks posed by the development of information technology and the internet.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang has approved a project to improve the capacity of incident and natural disaster response and search and rescue to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

The 15th National Assembly will spend a whole day on May 29 to examine the mobilization, management and use of resources for Covid-19 prevention and control.

For decades the town of Da Lat has drawn thousands of tourists because of its enchanting natural surroundings, its many scenic lakes and waterfalls, and its typical French villas that are dotted all over the hill slopes.

Electricity imports from Laos and China accounted for just a modest part of the total electricity demand of Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Dang Hoang An.

The implementation of policies on investment for ethnic minority areas, especially training, fostering, and developing ethnic minority human resources in the Mekong Delta region has proven effective.

While carrying out excavation work for constructing the foundation of a house in Cam Hung Commune in Cam Xuyen District, Ha Tinh Province, residents stumbled upon an undamaged bomb weighing 227kg.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) proposed to lift the investment capital of the Rach Mieu Bridge 2 project to over VND6.8 trillion (US$291 million).

Vietnam is striving to reduce the rate of tobacco use among males aged from 15 to less than 39% in the 2023 – 2025 period as set out in the freshly-approved National Strategy on Tobacco Harm Prevention and Control to 2030.

On the occasion of Buddha's birthday, State President Vo Van Thuong visited and extended his congratulations to Buddhist dignitaries and followers nationwide.

A proposal and a verification report on the National Assembly’s draft resolution on some specific mechanisms and policies for the development of HCMC were scrutinized during the ongoing fifth meeting of the 15th legislature on May 26 morning.

President Vo Van Thuong had a meeting with 75 young people from the Party Committee of the Central Agencies’ Bloc who are role models in following late President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings in Hanoi on May 25.

Many NA deputies raised the question of why Vietnam has to import electricity from Laos and China while 4,600 MWs of renewable energy are wasted and not allowed to connect to the national power grid.