The Drug Administration of Viet Nam has called on province and city health departments around the country to ensure they stock enough dengue fever medicines.

Five porters from a Hanoi market were sentenced to a total 17 years and six months in jail for ripping off merchants by charging illegal unloading fees, the city People’s Court announced on Friday.

Heavy showers with rainfall of up to 70mm per hour is expected to cool the country's northern region between Monday night and Wednesday.

Doctors from Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital have successfully carried out surgery to remove about 20 litres of liquid from the abdomen of a 19-year-old girl girl from the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.

The central province of Phu Yen began construction on the second stage of the first solar-powered public lighting system for the city of Tuy Hoa’s walking street, which will make it the first urban area in central Vietnam lit by renewable energy.

Fishermen across the world have tough lives, and squid catchers from the central province of Nghe An are no exception.

It's not just busy adults that struggle to shut their brains off at night, but many children also find it hard to escape to the land of nod.

The gap between the rich and the poor in Vietnam has been widening.

The commute to or from downtown Hanoi during rush hour can be stressful to say the least.

HCM City district authorities and state offices are setting up hotlines, working extra hours and visiting residents’ houses to provide public administrative procedures.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged central localities to redouble efforts to cope with the prolonged heat wave, drought and saltwater intrusion in the region.

The latest technological innovations, equipment and facilities in defence and security will be on show at the Viet Nam International Defence and Security Exhibition 2020 (VIDSE).

The ancient city of Hoi An has launched six bus routes using battery-powered cars as part of the tourism hub's efforts to go green.

The HCM City Department of Health has uploaded a list of 17 hospitals that have the capability to treat stroke victims on its website.

Police in central province of Binh Thuan on Tuesday began a criminal investigation into land management in Phan Thiet City after nearly 177sq.m of farming land was illegally transferred into housing land between early 2016 and September 2018.

A scorching summer day in Hoai Nhon District, Binh Dinh Province could not stop farmer Tran An Diem from working hard to dig a well in search of a precious source of water.

It’s important to respect traffic rules, but are they always a matter of life and death?

Domestically-made drugs have met nearly half the demand of Vietnamese people in treatment and prevention of diseases, while the country has successfully produced 12 out of 13 types of vaccines used nationwide.

Milk flowers, or hoa sữa, are a familiar sight for Hanoians. They are praised as a symbol of the capital city’s beauty, besides other famous spots like Hoan Kiem (Returned Sword) Lake, Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) and the Old Quarter.

Mai Thuy Linh, 32, has received several spam messages and at least two spam calls each day over the past week, which makes her very annoyed.