Law and judiciary
Transport minister issues measures to reduce traffic accidents
Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể has issued a plan to improve traffic safety for 2019, which details measures to raise public awareness and compliance with traffic rules, among others. The plan aims to reduce traffic accidents and related casualties by 10 percent compared to ...
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Crime prevention and combat fund established
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently signed a decision to set up a fund for the prevention of and fight against crimes. The fund at the central level will be managed by the Minister of Public Security while those at the provincial level, by the heads ...
Minh Hien
Social network etiquette for journalists released
The Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA) has publicized social network rules for journalists, highlighting the four do’s and eight don’ts for them. Accordingly, journalists should use their accounts on social networks to interact with one another, share and post information that serves interests of the society ...
Law ensures citizens’ right to information access
The Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) co-held a seminar in Hanoi on December 24 to introduce leaflets on the Law on Access to InformationCatherine Phuong, a UNDP representative in Vietnam, ensuring people’s right to information access is one of the ...
NA to consider adopting six bills at seventh session
The National Assembly will consider the adoption of six bills at its seventh session to be opened on May 20, 2019.Keep reading ...
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Traffic accidents drop 8.2% in 10 months
As many as 14,845 traffic accidents have been reported during the first 10 months of this year, killing 6,674 people and injuring 11,549 others, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Traffic congestion costs Hanoi $1.2bn a year
Hanoi is losing $1-1.2bn a year due to traffic congestion according to the Transport And Development Strategy Institute under the Ministry of Transport.Keep reading ...
VietnamNet Reporter
Vietnam imprisons another 15 for SEZ law protest violations
A group of 15 protesters will be jailed for attacking police officers and vandalizing a fire police station last June. A court in the south central province of Binh Thuan Wednesday sentenced Pham Thanh, 31, to four years and six months in prison for disrupting ...
Tu Huynh
Traffic accidents cause 50 trillion VND in losses to Vietnam a year
Losses caused by traffic accidents in Vietnam amount to 50 trillion VND (over 2.12 billion USD) each year, equivalent to 30 percent of budget spending on education, or 1. 5 million people going without income for the whole year. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
Over 6,500 local websites hacked
More than 6,500 websites in Vietnam have been attacked by hackers so far this year, according to an expert at the 2018 ASEAN Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Incident Drill, or ACID 2018, in Hanoi City on September 5.Keep reading ...
Van Ly
