Society

Police in Hoan Kiem District in Hanoi have summoned a 34-year-old taxi driver for reportedly overcharging two French tourists.

The National Assembly Standing Committee opened its 33rd session in Hanoi on May 13, under the chair of Tran Thanh Man, standing vice chairman of the NA.

Many resettlement areas in the southern central city of Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province have seriously deteriorated after being abandoned for many years.

Dantri/Dtinews has helped to build a house for a veteran affected by Agent Orange in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong.

Domestic travel firms are still hungry for visitors despite the significant increase in foreign travellers to Vietnam.

In addition to operating in District 1 and District 4, double-decker open-top buses are proposed to expand to new routes through District 5, District 6, and Thủ Đức City.

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Monday, spewing a huge ash tower more than five kilometres (three miles) into the sky after authorities raised its alert level to the second-highest last week.

The largest-ever made-in-Vietnam bulk carrier was recently launched by Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Company Limited in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

A poor woman in the central province of Quang Nam whose husband and son have died of cancer is taking care of a grandson who was severely injured in a traffic accident.

Three children have died in a landslide that broke the wall of a playroom which they were in, located in Hanoi's outlying mountainous district of Ba Vi on Sunday evening.

Viejet opened a direct air route linking Hanoi and Hiroshima on May 12, marking the first of its kind connecting Vietnam and the Japanese prefecture and the eighth of Vietjet between the two countries.

An event themed “Vietnam - EU joining hands for a clean environment” took place in Hạ Long city, the northern province of Quảng Ninh, on May 12.

Ten Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest late Friday from its southern approach, opening the route for hundreds of summit hopefuls.

The Vietnam International Electronics and Smart Appliances Expo will be held in HCM City from May 23 to 25.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on May 11 attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a high-tech biodegradable materials factory, a trillion-VND project by Ecovance Co. Ltd under the Republic of Korea’s SK Group, at the Dinh Vu industrial park.

Vietnam’s tourism sector served over 6.2 million foreign visitors and 40.5 million domestic tourists in the first four months of this year, earning nearly 10.7 billion USD in revenue.

The authorities of Hoanh Mo commune of Binh Lieu district, the northeastern province of Quang Ninh, coordinated with their Chinese counterparts from Fangchenggang city’s Dong Zhong town to clean up the environment along the shared border river from May

Mega transport projects will be stepped up in the Central Highlands in the coming years to help promote local socioeconomic development.