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84 percent of national highways decentralized to local authorities
The Vietnam Road Administration has announced a significant policy shift, commencing in 2025, with the decentralization of road management authority to provincial People’s Committees. This initiative will encompass approximately 84 percent of the national highway network, approximately 19,000 kilometers.After the decentralization takes effect, provincial people’s ...
Translated By Anh Quan
From gridlock to green cities: Vietnam's urban transport challenge
Large cities like Hanoi and HCMC are facing serious traffic congestion, air pollution, urban flooding, and urban heat island, calling for more effective solutions to limit personal vehicles. The policy of limiting personal vehicles to reduce congestion and pollution in urban areas has been in ...
Thanh Tam
Expert explains cause of landslides, advises on prevention measures
Dozens of landslides have occurred across the country since June, with some causing severe consequences and human losses. Associate Professor, Dr Tran Tan Van, former Director of the Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), spoke ...
Insufficient expansion funds keep Mekong Delta gateway a bottleneck
The lack of funds to widen the narrow main highway connecting HCMC with the Mekong Delta has impeded traffic for years.The section of National Highway 1 at HCMC’s western border runs from the An Lac Intersection in Binh Tan District to Long An Province. It is ...
Gia Minh
Party resolution implementation yields traffic infrastructure breakthrough
A modern transport network is gradually taking shape in Vietnam, promising to bring new opportunities for acceleration in the country’s socio-economic development after 2.5 year implementation of the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress.Though the Ministry has identified transport infrastructure as one of three strategic breakthroughs, which ...
Anh Quan
Transport infrastructure key to Mekong Delta’s economic growth
A vast major economic zone covering 40,400 sq.km., the Mekong Delta boasts abundant advantages in agricultural production and investment attraction across a variety of fields. However, for years, the slow development transport infrastructure has hindered the development of the region, becoming a bottleneck that prevent ...
Transport development in Mekong Delta should be accelerated: official
The development of transport infrastructure connecting the Mekong Delta and the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City should be accelerated in the coming time by increasing investment capital from both local budget and society, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan ...
Vam Cong bridge open to traffic in Mekong Delta
Vam Cong bridge spanning the Hau river to link up Can Tho city and Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta was open to traffic on May 19 at an inauguration ceremony, co-organized by the city and province people’s committees.Breaking ground in September 2013, the ...
