Up to between 300,000-350,000 abortions were carried out in Vietnam every year, the highest amount in Asia.

Many hospitals in the southern region are worried about a shortage of hydroxyethyl starch used intravenously to treat shock caused by dengue fever even as the disease has entered its peak season.

Vice Chairwoman of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) Tong Thi Phong has affirmed the role of multilateral co-operation in the region and the world in the context of rapid and complex global developments.

The former general director of Viet Nam Pharma Joint Stock Company (VN Pharma), the mastermind behind the import of fake medicine for cancer treatment, yesterday pleaded guilty at the second-instance trial

Doctors at Thong Nhat Hospital in HCM City have removed a retroperitoneal tumour weighing 2.4kg protruding from the abdomen of a 40-year-old man from Tan Binh District.

Vietnamese pianists win Putra International Piano Competition 2019 awards

Vietnam’s top 50 brands in 2019 announced

In the memories of many Hanoians’ generation, Lo Ren street in Hoan Kiem District houses many forging furnaces.

DNA testing might be common on English TV programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show, but in Vietnam, it seems its livestock queuing up to find out if the baby is theirs.

Vietnamese epic The Tale of Kieu will be performed by French artists for the first time in Hanoi tomorrow.

Police in Ha Tinh Province have busted an online football betting ring with total transactions easily reaching up to VND3 trillion (US$130.4 million).

Auction house Sotheby’s Hong Kong has pulled several Vietnamese paintings from an upcoming sale due to uncertainty over their authenticity.

HCM City plans to conduct research and identify trees resilient to natural disasters and suited to the local soil.

A number of provinces in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta facing serious erosion along rivers and coastal areas are taking measures to protect the land and people in the area.

Vietnamese Grandmaster Quang Liem was knocked out of the FIDE World Cup after losing to defending champion Levon Aronian of Armenia in a tie-break on Sunday in Russia.

The northern region of Vietnam has been predicted to experience a warmer winter this year, said an official from the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The Ministry of Transport has taken steps to prevent the increasing number of accidents involving cargo trucks and container trucks.

The trade volume between Saudi Arabia and Vietnam has witnessed impressive growth. Last year, the trade exchange reached about US$1.81 billion. The current volume stands at nearly $1.05 billion. 

A formation of rock layers, similar to the national heritage site Ghềnh Đá Đĩa (The Cliff of Stone Plates), has been discovered at Xuan Duc Hamlet in the central coastal province of Phu Yen.

In a recent interview with VNA, Nguyen Manh Dong, head of the maritime affairs department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' National Border Committee, reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy