Traditional taxi firms demand equal treatment with ride-hailing apps

A pilot project to enhance the management of fresh fruit stores in Hanoi has improved consumer awareness of food safety, but sellers' adherence to food safety regulations remains a problem.

The New York-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (IVCE) has established the Rural Villages Scholarship Foundation to support poor students in rural areas of Vietnam.

HCM City faces a housing shortage caused by the rapidly rising population and shortage of new housing projects.

Director of the Environmental Technology Centre under the Institute of Environmental Technology Phung Chi Sy speaks to Hải quan (Customs) newspaper about measures to help business tap opportunities to develop eco-friendly products.

Conductor Le Phi Phi is Vietnam’s own classical music artist whose name has become popular throughout Europe.

A play has just been staged with the unique combination of four traditional vocal arts, including cải lương (renovated opera), chèo (traditional opera), xẩm (singing by blind busker) and Hue’s hát văn (folk ceremonial singing of Hue).

Calligrapher Ngau Thu will display his works featuring poems by Heinrich Heine at an exhibition at the Ha Noi Goethe Institute.

Overseas Vietnamese singer Tuan Ngoc and young Vietnamese pop singer Duc Tuan will perform a live show at the central city’s Phoenix Wedding Centre on September 5.

HCMC cracks the whip on projects

The Da Nang Water Supply Company (Dawaco) on August 26 proposed the building of dams to prevent salinity and store fresh water in Cau Do River’s lowerstream as an urgent responding measure.

A forest fire destroyed nearly 200ha of forest over the weekend in central Phu Yen Province’s Phu Hoa District, Law Protection online newspaper reported.

Border guards in northern Lang Son Province caught a man and a woman trying to cross into China with a newborn baby on Sunday, in an effort likely put a stop to a human trafficking case.

The People’s Committee of Central Highlands Dak Nong Province has fined three businesses a total of VND500 million (US$21,500) for trading low-quality gasoline, news.zing.vn reported.

A truck collided head-on with a tractor truck on the stretch of National Highway No 6 passing through northern Son La Province’s Chieng Hac Commune early this morning.

Thien Minh Aviation JSC has proposed establishing a new airline, called Kite Air, with charter capital of VND1 trillion.

The HCMC Department of Information and Communications has proposed the municipal government spend VND1.6 trillion on installing more than 10,000 surveillance cameras over the next five years.

Authorities in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province have agreed to burn domestic waste of Con Dao District instead of shipping it from the island to a landfill on the mainland.

A large fire broke out at 9:15 a.m, August 26, on a canoe in Nha Trang Bay in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, injuring two people.

An Indian passenger was overcharged up to VND1.2 million (USD52.17) for just 8 kilometres taxi trip in Ho Chi Minh City.