A Chinese man has been transferred to police officers after he was discovered stealing over US$17,000 from a passenger onboard a plane landing at an airport in central Vietnam on November 24.

Four Laotian and Thai nationals have been arrested after attempting to smuggle 69 heroin cakes into the north-central Vietnamese province of Nghe An.

All but four out of 63 Vietnamese cities and provinces are slated to have their area code for landline numbers changed by February 2017, under a decision that not everyone is happy about.

The current separation of numbers for criminal, fire, and medical emergencies will be merged into a single emergency number, 114, according to an official at the municipal information department.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are expected to add some 300 new low-floor buses to its existing fleet in a bid to provide better services and convenience for disabled passengers.

Vietnam have placed one foot in the semifinals of the ongoing 2016 AFF Suzuki Cup after beating Malaysia 1-0 during their second group stage game in Myanmar on November 23.

The deputy prime minister of Vietnam has directed that competent agencies probe a road accident in which a trailer truck rear-ended a car and killed four people while traveling in a northern province on the weekend.

If anyone has ever thought winning a jackpot is a rare occurrence, they should think again as a Vietnam-Malaysia joint venture has found three winners of its American-style computerized lottery this month.

A small industry enabling tourists to explore Ho Chi Minh City via its 2,000km worth of waterways has been 'grounded' after emerging in 2011.

Eighty in every 100 industrial zones in Vietnam are violating the country’s environmental regulations, an expert said at a recent economic workshop in Hanoi.