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Full automatic non-stop toll collection (ETC) will officially start on the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway at 9am June 1.

The northern coastal province of Quang Ninh is accelerating ground clearance work and investment procedures so as to start construction work on the Mong Cai-Van Don highway within this month.

Police in Hai Phong on July 24 busted a ring transporting drugs from Vietnam-Laos border to the city and surrounding provinces, seizing 28 cakes of heroin, weighing nearly 9.83 kg, and 8kg of methamphetamine.

The first steel overpass in the inner northern city of Hai Phong at the most crowded intersection is expected to be put into operation in January next year.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on December 5 issued an order to open to traffic the Hanoi-Hai Phong highway, the most modern of its kind in Vietnam.