HCM City’s Department of Health has sped up the process of building a database and adopting IT as instructed by the city Party Committee.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued a written request to the People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province urging local agencies to strictly handle violations in Ha Long Bay.

Transport minister Nguyen Van The pledged to find the best method to repair the surface of Hanoi's Thang Long Bridge after multiple cracks and subsidence have developed but no long-term solution has been put forward.

Consistent with its sustainable development journey, the central city of Danang is committed to promoting and attracting investment on a selective basis while constantly improving its efficiency, avoiding the wooing of funding at all costs.

An exhibition of seven calligraphies written by Vietnamese calligrapher Ngau Thu and featuring poems by German poet Heinrich Heine will be held at the Goethe Institut in Hanoi from August 26 to September 2.

Artist Nagano Hideko, famous Japanese author of children’s picture books, is loved by Vietnamese children for her interesting picture books and her talks full of laughter.

Around 7,000 people will be joining the race this year including professional and amateur athletes, run-lovers in Vietnam and overseas.

Buddhist followers and Vietnamese families often offer vegetarian meal and burn votive personal belongings and money to feed the destitute spirits or to help wandering souls find their way back home.

Promoting the heroic tradition, during the past years, the mobile police force has been a "steel shield" to ensure social order, security and peace for people's lives.

As of the end of the second quarter of 2019, Vinalines reported VND8.1 trillion ($352.17 million) in total outstanding loans, including more than VND5.36 trillion ($233.04 million) in bank loans.

Two men suffering from the extremely rare disease, treeman syndrome, have been reported in Vietnam.

It's been a bleak week for Vietnamese schools, parents and their children. A boy was found dead in a school van on August 6, suspected of being forgotten by the caretaker and locked inside the vehicle.

The police has initiated legal proceedings against 13 defendants for their alleged involvement in a major football gambling ring worth VND1.6 trillion (US$64million), according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Demand for better healthcare in Vietnam over the past years has greatly contributed to the growth of medical device market.

Vietnam finished fifth at the 13th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) in Hungary, the Vietnam News Agency has reported.

Ta Ngoc Van, Chief Lawyer at a Hanoi-based charity organisation that rescues women and children in crisis, has been named in the 2019 Class of Asia 39 Young Leaders by the Asia Society from the US.

A 23-year-old Vietnamese woman has been killed after being swept out to sea by a large wave while swimming in the waters off of Takeigama beach in Kashima of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.

The ongoing reconstruction of the central chamber of Quoc An Pagoda, which was listed among 153 buildings in need of preservation in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, is causing controversy over its building permit.

Thai Son Nam will have to do without star player Vu Duc Tung in the AFC Futsal Club Championship’s quarter-final versus Chinese Shenzhen Nanling Tielang today.

About 5.6 per cent of Vietnamese children are at risk of trafficking according to results of a nationwide survey.