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Some 300 shelters will be built at public bus stops in Hanoi’s 17 outlying districts and Son Tay town.

The new Eastern Bus Terminal in HCM City's District 9 will open soon following two years of construction of the first phase of the project.

The Indonesian city of Surabaya has launched a scheme that allows passengers to swap plastic waste for bus tickets, a smart solution to reduce trash and tackle traffic congestion.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has instructed the Management Board of Urban Railway (MAUR) to send the changes to the first two metro lines’ cost estimates to the municipal People’s Council for approval.

Hanoi has announced plans to reduce traffic jams in 33 hot spots, said Vu Van Vien, Director of the municipal Department of Transport.

The number of people in Hanoi choosing bus as their means of transportation is rising. In the first half of this year, 221 million tickets were sold, an increase of 5 percent compared to the same period last year.

The number of passengers using monthly-paid bus passes issued by the Hanoi Transport and Services Corporation (Transerco) rose 6.6 percent so far this year, while the rise of this group of passengers throughout the capital city was recorded at 5.4 percent.

A new bus route carrying passengers from Noi Bai International Airport to Hanoi’s My Dinh bus station and vice versa was launched by the Transport Corporation Hanoi (Transerco) last weekend.

Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a death penalty for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman who was accused of ordering attacks including a January 2016 suicide bombing and gun attack in the capital city of Jakarta that killed four civilians and four attackers.

Indonesian police killed four terror suspects in Cianjur regency of West Java province on early May 13, saying they had planned attacks in the capital city and Bandung city.

Ho Chi Minh City's Management and Operation Centre for Public Transport has announced that it has started construction on a new Ben Thanh bus terminal on Ham Nghi Street in District 1.

Work to relocate HCM City’s Eastern Bus Terminal in Binh Thanh district will begin in early 2018, allowing tens of thousands of passengers to use daily services, the general director of the Eastern Bus Terminal has said.

Indonesian police shot dead a suspected militant after he stabbed two policemen inside a mosque near the national police headquarters in Jakarta.

Hanoi has 18 locations at risk of flooding when rainfall averages at least 50mm per two hours, according to head of the Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Limited Company.

Indonesian police said they have captured three more suspected militants following twin suicide bombings in Jakarta last week that killed three policemen and injured 12 other police and civilians.

Indonesian police on May 26 arrested three people suspected being linked to the suicide bombings that killed at least three police in a Jakarta bus terminal.

Indonesian police on May 25 said that two suspected suicide bombers in an attack on a bus terminal in Jakarta one day earlier have been identified.

For the Dao Do (Red Dao) people in the northern province of Ha Giang or the Muong in the central province of Thanh Hoa, Sau tre (bamboo worm), once a staple, has become a rare treat.

The volume of goods and passenger transported in Hanoi have strongly increased in January as the country’s biggest festival in the year - the Lunar New Year (Tet) – is approaching.

The Philippine authorities on December 24 urged hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate for fear that typhoon Nock-Ten will hit the country’s eastern coast on Christmas Day.