Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Expressways constructed at a cost of several trillions of đồng have become staging grounds for serious safety violations, mainly due to drivers’ and local people’s ignorance of the roads’ design and signage, Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper reported. On April 3, a woman drove her car in the wrong direction on the Hà Nội-Hải Phòng Expressway. She confessed to the police that she was “too panicked after realising that she had taken the wrong way and could not find the way out on the expressway”. By the end of February, another woman was fined VNĐ7.5 million and had her driving license revoked for five months because she, too, had been driving in the wrong direction on the Hà Nội-Hải Phòng Expressway. In the first three months of this year alone, cameras on the HCM City-Long Thành-Dầu Giây … [Read more...] about New expressways ferry confusion and danger
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New hospital building delayed due to slow compensation for residents A design of the new facility for HCM City Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics. Source http://www.medinet.hochiminhcity.gov.vn Slow compensation for residents affected by the construction project has delayed construction on a new facility for HCM City Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics for six years. The project to build the new facility was approved by the Prime Minister in 2010. In 2011, investors designed to build a 5,000-square metre facility, which was later expanded to more than 7,000 square metres. HCM City People’s Committee has instructed the authorities of Bình Chánh District, where the new facility will be located, and investors to speed up the construction many times, but the project still has not yet been started. In 2016, for instance, the committee required that the project begin in December of that year and would be expected to be completed this year. According to the … [Read more...] about Social News 4/4 (Hourly Updated)