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In the first 10 months of 2018, traffic accidents reduced by 1,322 cases and casualties dropped by 153 year on year.

In January - May, 2018, Vietnam recorded 7,490 traffic accidents, killing 3,476 people, down 0.4 % annually.

Two illegal logging cases were discovered in the central province of Quang Nam’s Dong Giang and Nam Giang districts in March, with 77 big trees chopped down.

The border guard force in the central province of Ha Tinh arrested a man carrying 15kg of methamphetamine from Laos to Vietnam on March 18.

Public toilets have been a neglected part amid development changes in Hanoi, with just above 370 ones currently operating to serve its 7.7 million residents.

A 200-billion-VND project on vocational and Khmer script training targeting Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho is set to begin in March.

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has approved the award of a certificate of merit to Do Van Bang, a student who returned a lost wallet with a large amount of cash to its owner.

Fire prevention police across Vietnam have issued warnings on the use of fire, electricity and petrol during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

As the temperature dropped to under 6 degrees Celsius, public schools in mountainous districts in Lao Cai closed on January 10-11, and nearly 30,000 pupils stayed at home.

Eight fishermen remained unaccounted for after their ships encountered an accident during rough sea in the Gulf of Tokin, which was caused by a cold spell in the past two days.

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang will work to reduce its poverty rate from 4.02 percent to 3.69 percent in 2018.

An explosion killed at least two children and injured eight people early January 3 morning at a scrap warehouse in Quan Do village in the northern province of Bac Ninh’s Yen Phong district.