Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The number of fatal traffic accidents in Vietnam held steady in 2010, despite government measures to raise awareness, authorities said Friday.

Beep! Beep! A motorcyclist without a helmet snakes through a crush of oncoming traffic — going the wrong way on a one-way street while texting with one hand on the phone, the other on the throttle.

HANOI - Effective May 20 this year, pedestrians who violate traffic laws in Vietnam, will face fines of up to 120,000 VND (US$6.3), according to the Head of the Transport Ministry's Traffic Safety Department Nguyen Van Thuan on Friday.

HCM City's Transport Department has submitted to the city government for final approval a controversial project to open a street through Hoang Van 11m Park in Tan Binh District as an extra route to Tan Son Nhat International Airport and to reduce worsening traffic jams in the area, said an official of the department.

A court in Vietnam Friday convicted 29 people of stealing dozens of ostriches, porcupines, pythons and other animals from enclosures at animal centres and selling their meat to restaurants.

Ministry of Construction, Vietnam has confirmed their support for Viet Traffic 2008, Vietnam's premier international traffic and land transport conference & exhibition to be held from the 15th to the 17th of October 2008.

A Vietnamese college student was arrested at the Bangalore International Airport Wednesday allegedly carrying more than four kilograms of heroin, The Times of India reported.

HANOI — More than 100 drivers of three-wheeled motor cyclos, many of them invalid veterans of the 'American war,' Monday protested against a looming ban of their vehicles in communist Vietnam's cities.