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Investment for Ho Chi Minh City’s first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route extending 25km between the city’s eastern and western sections has been cut by 13 million USD to 143 million USD by the municipal People’s Committee.

HCM City plans to spend nearly 400 trillion VND (17.3 billion USD) on improving public transport and limiting the use of personal vehicles during the next decade.

Ho Chi Minh City is carrying out multiple methods and programmes to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions in its aim to create a "clean, green and beautiful" city.

The commute to or from downtown Hanoi during rush hours can be stressful to say the least.

Environmentally-friendly buses in Ho Chi Minh City could face operating problems as compressed natural gas (CNG) suppliers plan to reduce CNG supply, according to local authorities.

After several years of using eco-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) to fuel some of its fleet, Ho Chi Minh City’s public bus system is now on the verge of a fuel shortage as the only supplier plans to reduce supply, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper has reported.

Hanoi plans to roll out additional busses fuelled by compressed natural gas (CNG) in the third quarter to ease traffic congestion and lessen environmental pollution, the municipal Department of Transport’s Public Transport Management and Operation Centre said.

The Ministry of Finance has added environmentally-friendly cars to the list of vehicles with spareparts entitled to special preferential import tariffs.

The HCM City Department of Transport aims to have 75 percent of the new buses running on clean fuel by the end of 2020.

Six provinces and cities have built their own green growth action plans with the assistance of a foreign-funded project in strengthening capacity and institutional reform for green growth and sustainable development in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) plans to tighten control of emissions of vehicles in circulation as well as used vehicles imported to curb air pollution.

Vietnam has actively implemented the Montreal Protocol and measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to preserve the ozone layer, earning international recognition, said Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport plans to set up three new compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations to meet refueling demand of CNG buses this year, according to the director of the department’s Public Transportation Management Centre.

Buses using compressed natural gas or CNG are deemed more eco-friendly than normal buses, however Hanoi’s plan to introduce a new fleet of buses has been hindered by multiple obstacles.

Hanoi’s Department of Transport said it started piloting three bus routes using Compressed Natural Gas from August 1.

Hanoi will pilot three bus routes using Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) from August 1, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Information and technology should be applied into the operation and management of public transportation to improve transport network in HCM City, Swedish companies recommended at a discussion on May 8.

A roundtable was held in Hanoi on May 7 to share Sweden’s experience in operating and monitoring public transport.

Vietnamese shares soared on January 25 as investors flocked to pour money into the HCM Stock Exchange (HOSE) after a two-day halt in operations following a technical crash.

The HCM City Department of Transport has put 18 new compressed natural gas-fuelled (CNG) buses into service in addition to 39 new diesel buses to replace old ones.