Vehicles

Road maintenance fee to be collected from June

Motorized vehicles users will have to pay a road maintenance fee from June 1, 2012, according to Governmental Decree No. 18, which will take effect that day.

Auto sales leap 43 percent in February

Seventeen members of the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturing Association (VAMA) last month sold a total of nearly 6,120 vehicles, down 25 percent over the same period last year, but up a significant 43 percent since January, the association reported.

Concerns about HCMC traffic fee collection project

Despite promise of better traffic conditions and huge economic benefits from the drafter of a US$62.5 million traffic fee collection project, many agencies remain in doubt.

Illegal racing bikes may be confiscated at once

To discourage illegal bike racers, Ho Chi Minh City wants to impose a tough penalty by confiscating vehicles immediately, even those of first time offenders

Fee collection reduces traffic on expressway

The volume of vehicles using the HCMC-Trung Luong expressway has been reduced by 40 percent - 50 percent since a traffic fee was first collected 2 days ago

HCMC to limit personal vehicle use, reduce parking lots

In an effort to ease congestion, Ho Chi Minh authorities will restrict the use of personal vehicles and halve the number of streets on which parking lots are operating.

Workshop talks green transport promotion in Vietnam

The Ministry of Transport and the UK Embassy in Vietnam jointly held a workshop on developing green vehicles in Hanoi on Feb. 17.

HN bans parking: violators fined, vehicle users tired

Yesterday, one day after Hanoi authorities banned parking lots on 262 streets, local traffic police and transport officers fined 135 violators, while many residents felt displeased as they failed to find parking for their vehicles

Hanoi gets tough on pavement parking

Many parking lots in Hanoi face closure under a new city ban on the use of pavement and roads for parking vehicles in more than 260 streets.

HCMC-Trung Luong expressway users to pay fee

Vehicles on the expressway that links Ho Chi Minh City and Long An and Tien Giang provinces will have to pay traffic fee as of February 25.

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From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of