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Question-and-Answer activities will be a focus of the third working week of the National Assembly (June 6-10).

The trans-Vietnam 2,744-km-long Ho Chi Minh Highway Project was planned to open in 2020 but so far only around 86 percent of the work has been completed, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The told National Assembly deputies on May 24.

Australia's renowned travel guide Lonely Planet has selected the seven best road trips in Vietnam, spanning from the country’s north down to its southern reaches.

Police in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on August 28 confirmed they have arrested a man for smuggling drug from Laos to Vietnam.

At least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured after a coach overturned in the central province of Quang Binh.

The Ministry of Transport has approved the construction of a 39km bypass around Buon Ma Thuot city on Ho Chi Minh Highway in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.

Upgrades will be made to all key roads in the Central Highlands region from now to 2020 with a view to boosting local socio-economic development, according to the Ministry of Transport.

The La Son-Tuy Loan highway that links the central provinces of ThuaThien-Hue and Da Nang is expected to open by the end of this year as land clearance work has been completed.

Despite the negative impacts of prolonged drought, the Central Highlands region still saw positive socio-economic development in 2015.

Construction on a road linking Can Tho and Kien Giang province in the Mekong Delta region began on January 17 in the presence of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The section of the Ho Chi Minh Highway running from Nam Can Bridge to Ca Mau Cape in the southernmost province of Ca Mau was opened to traffic on January 16.