Following a persistent five-hour downpour, many streets in Ho Chi Minh City were severely flooded, with water entering people's homes and disrupting their daily lives.
A serious traffic accident involving a container truck and a motorbike in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, resulted in casualties to a mother and her two children.
Tran Thi Truc Mai (15 years old, from Dong Thap province) left home on February 25th and her whereabouts are unknown. Due to the lack of contact for several days, her family reported the matter to the police to request assistance in the search.
The People's Committee of Binh Tan District has disciplined four officials for allowing the illegal construction of 129 houses, including one land management official who was dismissed from his job.
According to the Chairman of the People's Committee of Binh Tan District (Ho Chi Minh City), the local authorities will consider the responsibility of the local management for allowing a series of illegally constructed houses to occur.
Twenty-one households involved in the demolition of nearly 150 illegally constructed houses in Binh Tan District (Ho Chi Minh City) have erected makeshift shelters to live in temporarily.
Alley 58, Street 5 (Tan Tao A Ward, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) - known as the "capital of rental rooms" - is deserted, and the "rooms for rent" signs have been hanging there for a long time, faded with age.
The Nguyen Quyen apartment building (Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City), developed by Nguyen Quyen Co., Ltd., violates numerous fire safety regulations.
Two groups of people drinking at a snail restaurant on Le Van Quoi Street, Binh Hung Hoa A Ward, Binh Tan District, got into a brawl that resulted in one death and four injuries.
Unable to afford houses or commercial apartments, many low-income workers choose affordable social housing in Binh Tan District (Ho Chi Minh City) as their place of residence.
The outdoor advertising tower of Green City Advertising and Services Co., Ltd. was assigned to promote traffic safety but brazenly displayed commercial advertisements instead.
The Criminal Investigation Department of Binh Tan District Police, Ho Chi Minh City, has temporarily detained Hua Thi Kim Trang (21 years old) for investigation into the death of a 1-year-old girl suspected of being abused.
Ho Chi Minh City police arrested Nguyen Ngoc Luyen (39 years old, from Soc Trang province) after he seriously injured two people, Mr. Nguyen Van H. and his son (residents of Binh Tan district), by stabbing them and then barricading himself on the roof.
A math teacher at Binh Tri Dong A Secondary School (Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) arbitrarily raised the grades of 37 students across four classes, causing outrage among the students' parents.
Teachers at Vinh Loc High School (Ho Chi Minh City) continue to accuse the principal of numerous violations, including a lack of transparency in financial management and the improper deduction of points from performance evaluations.
Many teachers at Vinh Loc High School (Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) have sent urgent appeals for help regarding alleged misconduct by the principal in school management.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City COVID-19 Information Portal, as of October 24th, Ho Chi Minh City has 16 districts in the green zone, 5 in the yellow zone, no in the orange zone, and 1 district in the red zone.
Representatives from Binh Tan District Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City) have apologized and accepted responsibility to patients, their families, and the public for the recent error in charging fees to COVID-19 patients.
Many districts and cities in Ho Chi Minh City have a very high risk of infection on the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 epidemic map, with more than 1.000 cases in the area.
The father and son, both cosmetic surgeons, who transported the body of a young woman who died during a breast augmentation procedure from Ho Chi Minh City to a funeral home in Tra Vinh for embalming, have just provided initial information.
On the morning of July 1st, the People's Committee of Binh Tan District proposed extending the lockdown of neighborhoods 2, 3, and 4 in An Lac Ward for another 14 days, starting from 0:00 on July 4th. These three neighborhoods had not yet completed their previous 14-day lockdown.
On the afternoon of June 30th, the People's Committee of Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, issued an urgent notice temporarily suspending the operation of traditional markets in the district for two weeks, from 0:00 on July 1st to 24:00 on July 14th.