Society

Communes and wards in Hanoi are collecting data on petrol-powered and electric cars and motorbikes to serve the city’s transition to electric vehicles.

Cambodian authorities on August 15 handed over 353 citizens, identified by Cambodia as illegal residents, to the Border Guard Station at Xa Mat International Border Gate in Tay Ninh Province.

HCM City’s Department of Construction is drafting new regulations on bus operations to allow dedicated lanes and expand the number of routes in the 2025-2030 period.

Deputy Minister of Construction Le Anh Tuan said the 250 projects to be launched and inaugurated on August 19 are projected to contribute over 18 per cent of national GDP in 2025.

Many residents in Langbiang-Dalat Ward in Lam Dong Province have been gripped by anxiety following a landslide on the upper slope of a pine-covered hill.

A training course for overseas Vietnamese language teachers opened in Hanoi on August 14, attracting 80 teachers who returned from 15 countries and territories.

The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese reported that so far this year, ministries and localities have hosted numerous events honouring the Vietnamese language.

In the first half of 2025, Vietnam’s customs sector handled 8,561 violations, with a total goods value exceeding VND 13.6 trillion  (USD 517.79 million ).

A durian-planted hill in Lam Dong Province, about 80 metres high and covering over two hectares, has developed cracks, posing a high risk of landslides.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam held a phone conversation with President of the Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen at Cambodia’s request on August 14.

The Vietnam Road Administration will pilot a one-month ban on trucks using the first lane of the Hanoi-Haiphong and Phap Van-Cau Gie expressways, starting on August 15.

Many northern localities are expected to experience heavy rain in the coming days.

Tran Hien Vinh, a young man from the southern province of An Giang, is making a determined cycling journey from HCM City to Hanoi to join the celebrations marking the 80th National Day on September 2.

A young man in the southern province of Dong Nai was detained for transporting wild animals to sell.

A fisherman from the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak survived 24 hours adrift at sea by clinging to a foam board before being rescued by a cargo ship.

A 38-year-old woman in end-stage multi-organ failure has become the first patient in Vietnam to survive a heart-lung transplant.

Dengue fever cases surged in southern localities by over 97 per cent against the whole of 2024 in the first eight months of this year, with severe cases rising rapidly.

Party General Secretary To Lam on August 13 attended the inauguration of Vietnam’s Consulate General in Busan.

A Hanoi-based lawyer has decided to provide free legal defence for Thai Khac Thanh from Nghe An Province, who was sentenced to six years in prison for selling silver pheasants, a protected species.