I first learned about the Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands when I was at primary school in the 1980s. Every year, when Tết (Lunar New Year) approached, the students wrote letters and collected gifts to send to the soldiers stationed on the islands.

Hanoi police on Tuesday started criminal proceedings against three men suspected of posing as journalists to blackmail 20 construction material firms in Hanoi and neighbouring provinces.

The Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) in collaboration with the National Humanitarian Information Portal 1400 launched an SMS campaign to mobilise funds to support Agent Orange victims in Vietnam on Tuesday.

The British Embassy in Hanoi yesterday joined the global fight to tackle human slavery.

The International Women’s Volleyball Tournament, the VTV Hoa Sen Sheet Metal Cup, will be held with the participation of seven clubs from different countries on August 3-11 in Quảng Nam Province.

Economic police in HCMC have cracked down on a large ring that was producing and selling counterfeit medicines and supplements throughout the city’s districts and many Mekong Delta provinces.

 A tropical depression in the northern part of the East Sea has strengthened into a typhoon, becoming the third one to hit the region this year, announced the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting on July 31.

Vietnam beat the Philippines 3-1 in the second match during the ASEAN Football Federation U15 Championship in Thailand on Monday.

The Ministry of Justice will work with relevant agencies to review problems in the implementation of the 2014 Law on Marriage and Family.

Coaches Le Van Tu and Mai Van Duc were yesterday banned from all football activities because of match fixing.

Heavy rains have been forecasted in the north and northern central regions this weekend.

HCM City authorities have a new solution to attract investors to participate in apartment renovation projects.

The State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) will put its entire 36.3 percent stake, or 44.2 million shares, in the Vietnam Vegetable Oils Industry Corporation (Vocarimex) on the Hanoi Stock Exchange on August 15.

Vietnam’s sea transport sector has maintained good growth recently with the volume of goods transported by the Vietnamese fleet reaching more than 81 million tonnes in the first half of 2019.

The HTV Challenge Cup 2019, the largest terrain car race in Vietnam, is scheduled to take place in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City, from August 2 to 4 with the participation of 69 teams.

All of the six fishermen on board vessel BD 99999 TS that sunk off Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago in the early morning of July 30 were rescued later on the same day by another fishing boat.

Rice paddy fields in a Central Highlands commune are facing drought after a river's flow was diverted as the result of the construction a hydroelectric plant.

Eye on Indian market, Danang promotes wedding tourism

HCM City’s plans to set up an innovation hub and become a smart city mean opportunities for universities to train human resources and related challenges.

The deputy director of a real estate firm in HCM City refused to get out of his car when ordered by traffic police, saying that the vehicle cost VND5 billion (US$215,700), much more than the VND8 million monthly salary of a police officer.