A Vietnamese businesswoman was dismissed from the National Assembly on July 17 following a unanimous vote after she was found to also have citizenship of Malta.

Two young men in California are running a free photo service to raise money for students in poor communities in Vietnam.

Police in the central city of Da Nang are investigating the death of an American man whose body was found in a hotel room on July 17.

Vietnam earned nearly US$17 billion from exports of mobile phones and spare parts in the first half of the year, a year-on-year surge of 16%, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Customs officers in the northern province of Quang Ninh said on July 14 they will destroy around half a ton each of cats and chickens they seized from two trucks and which they suspected were smuggled from China.

Rising sea level caused by climate change could sink nearly 40% of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by the end of the century, with negative weather conditions already taking their toll on agricultural production, scientists say.

A baby gibbon from a rare species was rescued from hunters in central Vietnam on July 13 and is now in good care.

 Authorities in the central province of Quang Nam have revoked the license of a Canadian-owned gold miner, after it failed to pay more than VND334 billion (US$14.77 million) in back taxes, local media reported on July 12.

Ho Chi Minh City customs in June seized nearly 1.9 tons of plant-based drug khat disguised as tea or herbs in parcels from Africa. 

The Haiphong police said July 12 they arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly running a major sports gambling racket with thousands of clients.