Meanwhile, another cable fired up early this year to boost Vietnam's internet speed has been experiencing issues too.
A two-hour ride from bustling Hanoi offers a sea of clouds, merry meals and a maze of hidden spots.
As the country weighs the pros and cons of a higher limit for extra hours, take a look at the rules in other countries.
Tourism businesses say the visa waiver program for select countries from Europe has proved effective and should be extended.
The much-touted BRT system had a rough start at a middling speed, but passenger numbers are picking up.
More 250 people were killed by natural disasters throughout Vietnam in 2016, the government said in a recent announcement.
Police received reports of 1,128 victims last year, but only rescued around half of them.
An argument between two former friends led to a murder that made headlines two years ago.
Vietnam was named among nine countries with a 'low' terror threat by the Telegraph but didn't do so well in terms of road safety.
'Just propose those projects to me, no matter how bad it is,' Nguyen Ha Dong writes on Facebook.