A team of researchers with members in Australia were awarded the Ho Chi Minh scientific prize on Wednesday for their efforts in combating tuberculosis in Vietnam.
The health ministry has proposed a ban on new-generation tobacco products, citing the negative impacts they can have on the youth as also the additional management costs they can impose.
Kim See-Lim, regional director, East Asia and the Pacific, for the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC), says Vietnam should set up stable regulatory frameworks and make quicker decisions to realize its carbon-neutral target.
HCMC is among the fastest sinking cities in the world, subsiding by 16.2 mm annually, with groundwater extraction and high-rise buildings to blame, a study has found.
Police in Cambodia's Sihanoukville City said they rescued a Vietnamese woman from an online gambling firm on Friday as part of a crackdown on illegal labor and human trafficking.
The British Embassy in Hanoi and the British Consulate-General in HCMC opened their condolence books following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
The U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry is expected to visit Vietnam from Sep. 2 to 6 to address the climate crisis, the Department of State announced.
A decree that requires international firms with services in Vietnam to store users' data within Vietnamese territory and set up local offices is expected to take effect on October 1.
Localities stand prepared to evacuate around 115,000 people as flooding and landslide risks rise due to impacts of a tropical depression that storm Mulan has turned into.
