VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 8
08/01/2021 09:45 GMT+7
HCM City to spend US$2.3 million to repair HCM City-Trung Luong expressway.
HCM City will spend VNĐ55 billion (US$2.3 million) to maintain and repair the HCM City-Trung Lương expressway.
HCM City will spend an additional VNĐ55 billion (US$2.3 million) to repair and maintain the HCM City-Trung Lương expressway.
Nguyễn Văn Thành, head of the Department of Road Management No 4, said that recently the city had spent VNĐ22 billion to repair a section of the expressway.
In April, the department would spend more VNĐ55 billion to continue the work.
After more than 10 years of operation, the expressway has deteriorated because of severe cracks caused by container trucks.
New coronavirus variant found in Vietnam Patient 1,435, a Vietnamese woman repatriated from the UK, has been confirmed as the first COVID-19 case with VOC 202012/01, a recently found and highly contagious variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in Vietnam. The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute made the confirmation on January 2. The patient, born in 1976, was brought home from the UK on Flight VN50, which landed at Can Tho International Airport in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 22, and was quarantined upon arrival. She is among the six, out of the 305 passengers on board, tested positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
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Vietnam jails man for smuggling 29 kg rhino horns
By Nguyen Quy December 30, 2020 | 08:32 am GMT+7
Do Thanh Son stands trial in Can Tho City for illegally transporting nearly 29 kg of white rhino horns from Mozambique into Vietnam, December 29, 2020. Photo by Phap Luat TPHCM Newspaper.
A Can Tho court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 12.5 years in jail Tuesday for illegally transporting white rhino horns weighing 28.7 kilograms from Mozambique.
Do Thanh Son, 38, was found guilty of violating regulations on the management and protection of endangered, precious and rare animals, the
Phap Luat TPHCM (HCMC Laws) newspaper reported.
According to the indictment, Son had gone to Mozambique to work as a driver for a restaurant. In February 2020, he accepted a proposal by his employer, identified as Domigos, who would cover all travel expenses and pay him $1,000 to transport white rhino horns from Mozambique to Vietnam.