VietNamNet Bridge - On the morning of December 3, a middle-aged woman poured petrol from a can on four motorcycles on the sidewalk of Hai Trieu Street, District 1, HCM City and set fire.

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The fee is VND50,000 per year with motorcycles of less than 100 cm3 and VND100,000 for motorcycles of over 100 cm3. This is the lowest level in the framework of road maintenance fees issued by the Ministry of Finance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The super-motorcycles worth tens of thousands of US dollars of the mobile police force of Dong Nai are the vehicles that were liquidated from the confiscated vehicles, a police official said.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 70 percent of traffic accidents are related to motorcycles and mopeds and 30 percent of the victims suffer from brain damage leading to death. Some 72 of people on the road wear substandard helmets.

According to the city’s social-economic report of the first quarter 2013, more than 104,000 new vehicles, including over 26,000 cars, were registered during this period. On average, the city had nearly 300 newly-registered cars per day.

VietNamNet Bridge - As being planned by the transportation sector, in the next seven years the number of motorcycles in Vietnam will be about 36 million units. However, the latest statistics show that the current number is more than 37 million.