The Office Chief of the National Traffic Safety Committee, Nguyen Trong Thai, talks to Hai quan (Customs) newspaper about measures to reduce speeding, one of the key traffic accident causes.

 Accidents, traffic jams rise on National Highway 5, Couple discharge unknown waste allegedly causing clam deaths, HCMC strives to cut poverty rate by 1.4 percent, Nearly 8,000 elderly people receive healthcare treatment

VietNamNet Bridge - An accident at Song Bung 2 hydropower plant has extended the list of hydropower projects that have posed danger. 

The news of the deaths of three students from the Hanoi-based Foreign Trade University during a volunteer trip to a mountainous district of the northern province of Quang Ninh in early July has made people across the country feel sad.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for investigations into a series of grim incidents which took place over the weekend in the northern province of Quang Ninh and central province of Da Nang.

The first ten months of the year saw fewer traffic accidents in Viet Nam, with just around 18,440 incidents, down 11 per cent compared to the same period last year.    

 VietNamNet Bridge – Traffic safety across the country showed positive changes in the first nine months of this year with the numbers of deaths and injuries continuing to drop,

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will need an investment of nearly VND1.9 trillion (over US$84.4 million) to renovate a section of National Highway No 1A at its western gateway in Binh Chanh District.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many economic norms exceeded plan while social issues such as flooding, traffic accidents and diseases still challenged Ho Chi Minh City’s socioeconomic development in the first nine months this year,

  Two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have derailed within minutes of each other, killing at least 19 people, officials say.

 VietNamNet Bridge – People receiving vaccines through the free national immunisation programme will be compensated if the immunisation fails or causes serious side effects.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam understands the potential risks behind Chinese ODA (official development assistance) and Chinese technologies, but it still needs Chinese capital.

 Local police will set up working groups to inspect transport projects in the city, after several accidents occurred at work sites of the Ha Noi urban railway project.

As many as 163 traffic accidents occurred nationwide during the national holiday from April 28 to May 1, killing 91 people and injuring 109 others.

Trucks carrying too much cargo have become a problem near Ha Noi. They are damaging a road and making the air dirty. Such trucks are not supposed to be on that road.

 The Law Online newspaper quoted sources from the National Traffic Safety Committee as saying that in a mere three days from February 7 to 9, 115 traffic accidents were reported nationwide that left 69 dead and 64 injured.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health has reported that at least 14 medical workers had been assaulted since the beginning of 2013.

 At least 24 miners have been killed and 54 injured by an underground fire at a mine in China's north-eastern Liaoning province, state media report.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Transport firms could grind to a halt if they can't upgrade their semi-trailer trucks to meet new regulations by the end of the year.

Drunk driving is the cause of 70 percent of traffic accidents in Vietnam, Office Chief of the National Traffic Safety Committee Nguyen Trong Thai said, urging drastic measures to tackle the problem.