A violent early-morning head on crash today of a tour bus carrying 30 passengers and a semi-trailer on National Highway 1A in Thanh Hoa Province, has left dozens seriously injured.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has proposed Switzerland continue encouraging its businesses to invest in Vietnam.

 HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing heroin and ecstasy from them.

 Electric short-circuit was cited as the cause of the huge fire that engulfed a Taiwanese garment factory in southern Can Tho Province’s Tra Noc Industrial Zone.

 Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghe An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said.

 LienVietPostBank has planned to deposit shares at the Vietnam Securities Depository and listing on the UPCoM.

 The central bank must push up banking restructuring and settlement of bad debt to ease pressure on rate hikes and keep rates stable this year, experts agreed at an online meeting yesterday on 2017 interest rate trends.

 Two hundred young athletes from 26 cities and provinces across the country gathered on Wednesay in northern Bac Ninh Province for this year’s national youth weightlifting tournament.

 U19 PVF claimed a final berth at the 2017 National U19 Championship with a convincing 2-0 win over U19 Viettel.

Vietnam National Shipping Lines or Vinalines wants to transfer its stake, valued at US$11.5 million, accounting for 88.6 per cent of chartered capital, from Vinalines Shipyard Company Limited.

 The Ministry of Information and Communications said that it has fined Viettel, VinaPhone and MobiFone VND$85 million (US$3,728) for using fake identity cards to register pre-paid phone subscriptions.

The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient

The Central Highlands provinces have good potential for growing macadamia, but more studies are needed to grow the nut, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.

The Supreme People’s Court yesterday looked into issues relating to the draft law revising the 2015 Penal Code, including the scope of criminal responsibility by those aged 14 to 16 and the criminal liability of adults in commerce.

Ha Noi will stop operating five bus routes that serve cadres and civil servants travelling from Ha Dong to the centre of the capital from early next month.

 Water in a 10ha reservoir in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province’s Tan Hai Commune has turned red and terribly smelly, raising pollution concerns from local residents.

 The fourth HCM City Biennale Art Exhibition for Young Artists will be held at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum next month.

 One foreign tourist was killed and another injured in a traffic accident on National Highway 6 through northern mountainous Hoa Binh Province.

 Hai Phong City police have decided to initiate criminal proceedings against three journalists from Kinh Doanh and Phap Luat (Business and Law) newspaper for extortion.

 Hanoi police on Monday reported they had detained a suspect for investigation into a cheating case related to property appropriation.