Military officers in the southern province of Dong Thap have safely removed a bomb weighing around 200 kilograms from a local family’s backyard.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on May 31 announced a fine of more than VND5.8 billion (US$260,000) against Philippine beverage firm URC for producing and selling products with high lead content.

Vietnam is among countries where smoking is most widely prevalent, losing more than 100 people a day to the habit and facing a huge financial burden, according to official figures.

A farmer was killed and three others hospitalized on May 28 after they were struck by lightning on their field in Hue Town.

Authorities are investigating what appears to be the suicide of a British man who was found hanging in his house in the resort town of Hoi An in central Vietnam.

Police in the northern province of Lang Son have detained a young man who was caught with six kilograms of methamphetamine that he allegedly bought from a Chinese.

Vietnam’s central bank has permitted commercial lenders to resume dollar loans to export businesses starting June 1, two months after it banned that activity, amid economic difficulties.

Love and Romanticism in ballet are the special threads that will weave together the star-studded “Paris Ballet par VPBank” show to be held next month in Hanoi.

As Vietnam's economy growth slowed down in the first quarter, the country's unemployment rate has slightly risen to 2.25%, according to the labor ministry's new data.

Vietnam's top lenders BIDV, Vietinbank and Vietcombank have made huge leaps on Forbes' latest list of 2,000 biggest and most powerful public companies around the world.