Uber ban

Workers set up a car ban pole on Giảng Võ Street, Hà Nội. - Photo zing.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội has decided to ban Uber and Grab cars on 13 streets during rush hours in an effort to tackle increasing traffic jams. The city’s Department of Transport has, so far, installed signs prohibiting taxis and nine-seater commercial cars and smaller ones, including those of popular transportation networks Uber and Grab, on nine out of 13 streets. The ban is due to go into effect from Thursday. Accordingly, commercial cars will not be allowed to run between 6 and 9am and from 4.30 to 7.30pm. The streets on which the cars are banned are Hoàng Hoa Thám, Mai Xuân Thưởng, Giảng Võ and Láng Hạ, as well as Lê Văn Lương, Trường Chinh, Khâm Thiên and Hàng Bài, in addition to Phủ Doãn, Xuân Thủy, Cầu Giấy, Giải Phóng and the Chương Dương Bridge on the lane from Long Biên District to the city centre. Department director Vũ Văn Viện said the ban was aimed at reducing the … [Read more...] about Uber, Grab cars banned on 13 streets

An overturned light truck on the approach to Bình Triệu Bridge in HCM City’s Thủ Đức District. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The chairman of HCM City People’s Committee Nguyễn Thành Phong instructed the municipal Department of Transport and relevant authorities to make studies for banning all light trucks during the day time in an effort to ease traffic congestion. “This is a necessary solution because traffic congestion is happening throughout the day, not only during peak hours, especially at the city’s enterences, major roads, Tân Sơn Nhất Airport and Cát Lái Port,”  Phong said at a Friday meeting to review traffic and safety for the first six months of this year. “Relevant authorities must continue to properly guide traffic routes, install more traffic lights, and arrange traffic police to ease traffic congestion,” he added. Phong also asked authorities to speed up projects to collect car parking fees, to set up walking streets in downtown and … [Read more...] about HCMC to ban light trucks in daytime

Twenty agreements during Obama visit, says envoy Young VNese ’future global leaders’: Obama Fulbright University officially launched in Việt Nam Peace better than war: Barack Obama Obama praises VN’s entrepreneurial spirit Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng (right) meets with US President Barack Obama yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Trí Dũng Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The US is fully lifting its fifty-year old arms embargo on Việt Nam, announced US President Barack Obama yesterday. The historic announcement came in a joint press conference between Obama and his Vietnamese counterpart Trần Đại Quang during the US President’s three-day official trip to the Southeast Asian nation. Obama said that ending the ban on military equipment sales to Việt Nam would boost defence ties with its one-time enemy. Though the decision came in the context of China flexing its muscles in the East Sea, Obama denied removing with China in mind when asked by a … [Read more...] about US lifts arms ban on Việt Nam: Obama

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng. — VNA/VNS Photo Văn Điệp HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam adamantly opposes and rejects China’s unilateral ban on fishing in the East Sea from May 1 to August 16, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng told the media at a regular press conference yesterday. She elaborated that “Việt Nam has sufficient legal foundation and historical evidence testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) archipelago as well as the legitimate rights over Việt Nam’s sea areas defined in line with the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).” China’s ban violated Việt Nam’s sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa Archipelago as well as Việt Nam’s rights and legitimate interests in its sea areas. That action also infringed international law, including the 1982 UNCLOS and relevant international legal documents, and ran counter to the spirit and wording of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) signed by ASEAN and China in … [Read more...] about VN objects to China’s East Sea ban

Measures to stop the use of banned substances and overuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry were discussed at a forum organised in Bình Dương Province on Tuesday.— Photo tuoitre.vn BÌNH DƯƠNG - Measures to stop the use of banned substances and overuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry were discussed at a forum organised in Bình Dương Province on Tuesday. Salbutamol residues can speed up the heart rate and cause dizziness, headaches and anxiety in humans, especially in those with heart diseases and hypertension, she said. Nguyễn Văn Việt, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development chief inspector, said intensified inspection by relevant agencies has “basically controlled” the import, distribution and use of banned substances in animal freeding. The ministry would further intensify checks of animal feed producers and distributors, pig farms, and slaughterhouses to eradicate the use of banned substances and overuse of antibiotics, he said. Phan Huy Thông, director … [Read more...] about Banned agricultural substances rampant

Tourists will no longer be able to have a barbeque feast on the Vũng Tàu beach starting from April 26, 2016. Photo thanhnien.vn Viet Nam News VŨNG TÀU (VNS) – Tourists will no longer be able to have a barbeque feast on the Vũng Tàu beach as the coastal city is seeking a better environment for tourists. The ban on all food businesses on the beach – mostly seafood BBQ provided by local tourism cooperatives – officially comes into effect on Tuesday. “No cleaning up after meals left the beach very dirty and polluted,” Vũng Tàu People’s Committee Deputy Chairwoman Trương Thị Hường said yesterday. The pleasure of eating freshly-cooked seafood with a beer on the 1,200m beach had become the norm for tourists visiting this southern city. Reports by the Vũng Tàu People’s Committee reveal there were some 100 businesses, under the management of the two largest tourism cooperatives Vũng Tàu and Thùy Vân, which rented beach chairs and provided cooking services to the … [Read more...] about BBQ banned on Vũng Tàu beach

Illuatrative Image enternews.vn HCM City — HCM City authorities will work closely with central provinces, where mass fish deaths have occurred because of chemical substances discharged into waterways, to prevent and stop the trade of dead or dying fish from these areas in HCM City. Võ Văn Hoan, chief of HCM City People’s Committee Office, said at a press conference held in the city yesterday: “If we don’t prevent unsafe and unhygienic food, local resident’s health as well as tourism will suffer the consequences.” He said that the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development had issued a ban on transport and trade of dead or dying fish. Hoan said that trade in these fish had already occurred. Many seafood enterprises have shifted seafood purchasing from the central province of Khánh Hòa to the south to ensure safety for customers. HCM City has experienced problems in food supply because of the recent severe drought and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta. — VNS … [Read more...] about HCM City bans trade in contaminated fish

Authorised forces inspect a sand-dredging boat on the Cầu River in the northern province of Bắc Ninh. Dredging the river bed and trading in agricultural products on the Cầu and Đuống rivers will be banned. - VNA/VNS Photo Thái Hùng Viet Nam News BẮC NINH – D redg ing the river bed and trading in agricultural products on the Cầu and Đuống rivers will be banned, t he northern province of Bắc Ninh’s People’s Committee has reported. Because the dam system on the rivers crossing the two provinces of Bắc Ninh and Bắc Giang has been weakened, relevant offices had to keep close control of these dam systems, according to Bắc Ninh authorities. The Bắc Ninh People’s Committee has asked the Việt Nam Inland Waterways Administration to stop all activities of the Giang Linh Transport and Trading Ltd Co, and other joint-stock companies that were involved in dredging the river bed and trading on the two rivers. Erosion has recently occurred in the area, … [Read more...] about Bắc Ninh Province to ban dredging river bed, trading

More than 400 farm breeders in the southeast region of Việt Nam yesterday signed a commitment not to use banned chemical substances at a workshop held in Đồng Nai Province. – Photo tuoitre.vn Viet Nam News ĐỒNG NAI(VNS) – More than 400 households in the southeast region of Việt Nam yesterday signed a commitment not to use banned chemical substances such as lean-meat agents that have harmful side-effects. They also pledged to use piglets with clear origins and utilise safe animal feed and water in breeding. If diseased livestock were detected, they would inform the relevant agency and not put the infected animals on sale in the market. The signing took place at a workshop held by the Department of Livestock Production (under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) and the Animal Husbandry Association of Việt Nam in southern Đồng Nai Province with the participation of over 400 farm breeders from southeast provinces and experts on animal husbandry. Speaking at … [Read more...] about Breeders commit to not use banned substances

Cars will be banned from selected roads in downtown HCM City to ensure relocation of Nhà Bè – Tao Đàn underground cable systems that cross Bến Nghé Canal. — Photo motthegioi.vn HCM CITY — Cars will be banned from selected roads in downtown HCM City to ensure relocation of Nhà Bè – Tao Đàn underground cable systems that cross Bến Nghé Canal. Instead of entering Khánh Hội Street in District 4 at a section extending from Vân Đồn Wharf to Hoàng Diệu Street, cars are required to travel from Vân Đồn Wharf to a side road near Ông Lãnh Bridge, then to Hoàng Diệu Street and Khánh Hội Street. From now until August 19, motorbikes are prohibited from entering one of the motorbike lanes on Võ Văn Kiệt Street in District 1. All vehicles are banned from entering Nguyễn Trung Trực Street in District 1 at a section extending from Lưu Văn Lang to Lê Lợi streets. The alternative routes extend from Nguyễn Trung Trực, Lý Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa to Lê Lợi streets, and from Lê Lợi, … [Read more...] about Cars banned from roads to make way for underground cable work