Vietnam's updated anti-corruption law strengthens public accountability and annual financial scrutiny.

On the morning of December 9, the Legal and Judicial Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly called on the government to strengthen efforts to encourage voluntary surrender and pursue suspects who have fled abroad.

General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negative Practices, chaired a meeting of the committee’s standing board at the Party Central Committee headquarters this morning.

Former Deputy Chief of the Office of the National Assembly, Pham Thai Ha, has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison for abusing his position and power to seek personal gain.

The Ministry of Health has submitted a request to revoke the Third-class Labor Order awarded to a prominent mental health director, following his own request.

Tran Van Thuc, ex-director of Thanh Hoa’s education department, has been arrested for alleged document falsification in school admissions.

The Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Department has issued an official notice imposing a temporary overseas travel ban on Do Trong Hung, Deputy Head of the Central Organization Commission and former Party Secretary of Thanh Hoa province.

The director of the Central Highlands Forensic Psychiatry Center has been detained for accepting bribes, sparking investigations into systemic abuse of power.

Seven senior figures, including a former city party secretary and a provincial vice chairman, face prosecution in a widening corruption probe.

The Director of Vietnam’s Food Safety Authority was detained over allegations of bribery linked to health supplement advertising approvals.

18 people face criminal charges in a widening corruption probe involving the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Public Security has detained Le Duc Giang and three others amid a deepening investigation into serious violations in mineral resource licensing.

The plan, designed to align with the Party’s directives, aims to embed rigorous controls over power and prevent abuse in managing state resources.

The Ministry of Public Security is investigating high-level executives for bribery and asset misuse.

The Hanoi People’s Court on May 29 handed down sentences to a former senior trade official and three others for their roles in a bribery case involving the issuance of fuel trading licences.

The Hanoi People’s Court opened the first-instance trial of Nguyen Loc An, ex-Deputy Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's Domestic Market Department over violations related to the issuance of petroleum import and export licences.

Former Director of the National Center for Judicial Records, Hoang Quoc Hung, along with his former personal driver, allegedly accepted over 43 billion VND ($1.7 million) in bribes to illegally process more than 55,000 judicial record certificates.

Former lawmakers lose appeals in abuse of power case as high-profile trial concludes.

Ex-officials at the Ministry of Health arrested for enabling large-scale health product fraud.