Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings plans to add agricultural, auto and life insurance policies to its offerings in Vietnam, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on August 25.

An ATR 72 of VASCO, a fully-owned subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines, was damaged after it was hit by with a cargo truck at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport on August 25.

KIDO Corp., formerly Kinh Do Corp., announced on August 23 it has sold its remaining 20 percent stake in its snack business to the US’s Mondelez International Inc for VND2 trillion (US$89.8 million).

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court on August 24 confirmed the death sentence for a Vietnamese-Australian for drug smuggling after a reinvestigation determined the drug amount was too big to commute the sentence.

Cao Van Ba lost half of his two-hectare orchard on Son Islet due to serious erosion in the past few years.

Police and prosecutors from the southern island of Con Dao have been disagreeing for weeks over whether to start criminal proceedings in a theft case involving 116 sea turtle eggs.

A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A321 was grounded for repairs at a central Vietnamese airport on August 23 after technicians found its tailplane was damaged.

The finance ministry is seeking the government’s approval to legalize sports betting under a plan that has however been slammed by critics for keeping the maximum stake too low.

A Korean woman who possibly had her purse stolen in Vung Tau with all her money and papers burst into tears at the hydrofoil jetty and is all over social media as a result.

Police in Son La Province on the Laos border on August 19 seized 6.6 kilograms of heroin from a smuggling gang after a shoot-out.