Cold spell continues in northern areas; Man killed in road accident; Two miners die at stone mine rockslide; Former taxi drivers put in jail for fraud; Health Ministry cracks down on food safety; Ha Noi launches new online bus map

 VietNamNet Bridge – Early morning of December 20, an ambulance carrying a patient from the southern province of An Giang to HCM City crashed into the bottom of a truck on the Trung Luong expressway, killing three and injuring two.

 Chinese doctors have saved a man's severed hand by grafting it to his ankle, it is reported.

 Man burned when motorbikes collide; Province allocates VND15.5 billion to relocate residents; Boats seized for stealing sand in southern province; Illegal loggers caught in Ha Giang; HCM City hospital offers free health checks

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a US$59 million project to get Ha Noi people off their motorbikes and out of their cars.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The wagon carrying workers in a coal mine in Quang Ninh province suddenly derailed, claiming the lives of three miners of the Vang Danh Coal Company on Sunday, November 24.

In the darkness, the truck suddenly lost control and plunged into an abyss in Tuong Duong district of the central province of Nghe An. The driver thrown out of the cabin, stuck on the cliff while two others died and one was badly injured.

 Police seize plant growth stimulants; Two die, one injured in house fire; Three missing in boat accident; Stranded S Korean ship starts to leak oil; 17 injured in Dong Nai car accident; Police nab fake doctor in Bach Mai Hospital

Central Quang Tri Province on Monday announced that the death of a three-year-old kid, who died on Sunday after receiving a Quinvaxem vaccine, was not caused by the vaccination.

Four members of a family were killed after their general store suddenly caught fire in southern Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province's Toc Tien Commune yesterday morning.

Russia's Federation Council (Upper House) on October 30 approved an agreement on temporary migrant workers between the Vietnamese and Russian Governments.

 At least seven passengers were killed and 25 others were injured after a coach en route from Haiphong to Lao Cai plunged into a canyon on October 25.

 11 bodies have been recovered from the crash site of Lao Airlines flight QV301, Director General of Civil Aviation Yakao Lopangkao told Xinhua on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Two passengers were killed and 33 injured after a coach from Lai Chau to Lao Cai plunged 3m into a stream in Yen Bai province yesterday, October 15.

 The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) held a ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam-China Friendship Palace in Hanoi on October 8.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the afternoon of September 23, a foreign man was crossing Bui Thi Xuan Road in HCM City when he was consecutively crashed into by two motorcycles.

 The risk of a possible rabies outbreak will remain high if measures are not taken to control the disease, said experts from the Ministry of Health.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) have warned of severe shortage of power during the next dry season as existing hydropower plants are now old and new ones have still not been constructed.

VietNamNet Bridge – Yesterday morning an American man was struck and killed by a truck on the spot when he was riding at the bend from Huynh Tan Phat Road to the Ben Nghe port in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not seeing colleagues who entered a fish oil tank to collect samples to return, five others turn by turn came in to check and all of them died of suffocation, including the director and deputy director.