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  Buses at the Miền Tây (Western) Bus Station in HCM City’s Bình Tân District. — VNS Photo Nguyễn Diệp HCM CITY — The municipal transport department has proposed 12 new bus routes that will expand the city’s public transport network, increase inter-locality connectivity and encourage residents to use public transportation. The proposal has …

  Doctors in Hà Nội provide free post-COVID health check-ups on June 3. — VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam on Tuesday announced 960 new COVID-19 infections nationwide, all locally transmitted. The national caseload since the start of the pandemic now stands at 10,727,005. The capital city of Hà Nội still topped the country with 192 …

  The 960 new cases are all local infections including 822 in the community detected in Hà Nội (192), Yên Bái (67), Phú Thọ (55), Đà Nẵng (54), Nghệ An (48), Hải Phòng (42), Vĩnh Phúc (40), Hồ Chí Minh City (35), Hải Dương (35), Lào Cai (34), Bắc Ninh …

  Nguyễn Thanh Long. — VNA/VNS Photo  HÀ NỘI — The National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday approved resolutions on the dismissal of Nguyễn Thanh Long from his positions as deputy of the 15th legislature and as Health Minister over his wrongdoings in a COVID-19 test kit scam. Earlier, the NA heard a …

Defendant Brian Alberto Cabrera Cruz. — Photo MBS News HÀ NỘI — A man convicted of murdering a Vietnamese student in Japan has been jailed for 12 years.  Brian Alberto Cabrera Cruz, from the Dominican Republic, initially denied killing the 21-year-old claiming he was attacked first and was acting in self …

  Workers in HCM City can live temporarily in industrial zones from July 15 onwards. Photo courtesy of plo.vn HCM CITY – Workers in HCM City can live temporarily in industrial zones from July 15 towards ensuring smooth production and related business activities, municipal authorities say. Under regulations on management of …

An overloaded lorry seized by Hà Nội Traffic Police. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A one-month crackdown on overloaded vehicles across the country will begin on June 15, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) has announced.  The campaign has come about after a number of overloaded vehicles with widened trunks have damaged …

  Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh Street in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District is flooded after heavy rains recently. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh HCM CITY — Experts have called on HCM City to improve urban planning to mitigate pressing problems like flooding and traffic congestion. “Poorly planned urban development” is to blame …

  HÀ NỘI — The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) office used more than VNĐ45.444 trillion (US$1.96 billion) from the unemployment insurance fund to pay employees and employers over the past two years, given serious COVID-19-induced difficulties facing production and business. In the context of the pandemic, the Prime Minister issued a series of …

  Farmers grow vegetables in a net house in Sóc Trăng Province’s Vĩnh Châu Town. —VNA/VNS Photo Trung Hiếu SÓC TRĂNG — The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Sóc Trăng has expanded organic farming as it helps reduce production costs and is sustainable, and produce grown using the method …