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A contest on digital technologies in traffic safety education and communication has been launched.

People who violate traffic laws will be able to pay their fines online starting from June 30.

The majority of localities in the Mekong Delta region saw a sharp decrease in the numbers of traffic accidents, fatalities and injured in the first nine months of this year, heard a Traffic Safety Day eventheld in Long Xuyen city, An Giang province on October 10.

The Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security has considered proposing a demerit point system to tackle driving offences.

Strengthening communications to raise public awareness of traffic law is the most effective and economical way to ensure traffic safety, said Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee President Nguyen Thien Nhan.

Policies on the management and provision of radio and television services, conditions on setting up representative offices, and regulations on speed limits on national roads will take effect in March.

Pedestrians violating traffic laws will be fined beginning February 1, according to the Hanoi traffic police.

The Department of Transport of Hanoi has asked its inspectors to stiffen punishments of violating vehicles in order to ensure traffic safety during the Lunar New Year Festival.

Hanoi Police would implement mandatory registration of electric scooters and bikes from December 6, said Nguyen Manh Hung, deputy head of the Hanoi Road and Railway Traffic Police Division.