Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 23 inspected the section of the 500kV Circuit-3 Quang Trach-Quynh Luu power transmission line project crossing the central province of Nghe An, urging efforts to accelerate its progress.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on October 16 made a field trip to the construction site of Long Thanh International Airport in the southern province of Dong Nai.

A landslide triggered by prolonged heavy downpours killed three people and injured another in Ha Long city in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on August 12.

A Vietnamese technical trainee died while working at a construction site in Chukyo district in Japan’s Kyoto city on May 13, local newspapers reported.

The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway has been connected to the national power grid since the beginning of July for its trial operation this month.

A bomb and mine disposal company on April 13 safely removed a 225-kg bomb believed to be dropped by US planes in 1972 from the construction site of a highway in the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has asked for the Duong River Surface Water Treatment Plant project to be sped up.

The body of Nguyen Xuan Dinh, who died in an accident in a construction site in Algeria, was brought home on January 15 at the request of his family.

Eleven people, mainly foreign workers, were killed in a landslide at a construction site in George Town in Penang state of Malaysia on October 21.

At least seven workers were killed and six others were seriously injured in an explosion in the construction site of a power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia.