VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality and largest financial centre in Vietnam, is speeding up procedures to build three more metro lines with a total capital of more than US$5 billion alongside the two ongoing Metro lines No.1 and No.2.

The Metro Line 1 (Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien) in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to start commercial operation in October this year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City’s Management Authority for Urban Railways (MAUR).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a teleconference with ministries, agencies, localities and units on April 1 to review the progress of the 500kV circuit-3 power transmission line linking Quang Trach in the central province of Quang Binh and Pho Noi in the northern province of Hung Yen.

New Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam paid a courtesy call to President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines in Canberra on March 25.

A kick-off ceremony for the construction of the Khe Net pass railway rehabilitation project was held on March 22 by the Ministry of Construction, the People’s Committee of central Quang Binh province, and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF).

VOV.VN - The standing members of the Government have requested the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and relevant agencies to complete the North-South express railway line project to submit to competent authorities for consideration in a coulle of months.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chigh outlined Vietnam’s major development orientations in its policy line during a policy dialogue in Davos, Switzerland, on January 16 afternoon (local time) on the sidelines of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024.

VOV.VN - Nestlé Vietnam announced on January 8 the additional investment of US$100 million to double its processing capacity of high-quality coffee lines at the Nestlé Tri An factory in the southern province of Dong Nai.

VOV.VN - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has just signed an agreement to lend more than JPY41 billion to the Vietnamese Government for the construction of Metro Line No. 1 (Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien section) in Ho Chi Minh City.

VOV.VN - Ships 8004 and 8002 of the Vietnam Coast Guard left a port in Hai Phong city on November 27 for a joint patrol with the China Coast Guard in the waters adjacent to the demarcation line of the Gulf of Tonkin.