Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have suggested banning Uber as the ride-hailing service is not included in the city’s pilot plan on electronic contracts for passenger transport.

As schoolchildren across Vietnam enter the months-long summer break, increasing drownings have been reported among minors in rivers, lakes and even swimming pools.

Green trees in Ho Chi Minh City are continuously falling victim to damage and illegal chopping while authorities are powerless to step-in due to a lack of specific authorization.

Eight people, including seven children and a sexagenarian, were reported drowning in two separate incidents in central Vietnam on June 2.

The ceremony of the Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award (AREA) 2017 was held at the Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong Hotel late Friday, with 300 CSR thought leaders and practitioners expected to attend from across the Asian region.

A woman from An Giang Province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, has been running a shop that offers free-of-charge clothes to the disadvantaged.

Ten out of every one thousand smartphones sold worldwide in the first quarter of 2017 were to Vietnamese users, who collective spent nearly VND20 trillion on the hi-tech devices, two separate reports show.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested a three-month delay on the implementation of a plan to develop a tourist area on the Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Da Nang, temporarily ending months of debate around the controversial zoning.

Gamblers in Ho Chi Minh City have found a new playground as cockfight betting rings go online.

Throughout his life here, the seasoned British restaurateur has enriched Ho Chi Minh City’s food scene with a chain of bistros specializing in an array of exotic culinary delights.