The number of traffic accidents across Vietnam has decreased over the first nine months of 2016, the government said in a recent report.

The VinaCapital Foundation’s Heartbeat Vietnam, a charity meant to help children with cardiovascular diseases, has recently marked its 5,000th surgeries  after the program was initiated in 2006.

The Hanoi Party Committee has ordered that one of the two passengers who assaulted a female employee at the city’s Noi Bai International Airport earlier this week issue a public apology to her.

Despite eligibility for tax incentives, Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are still exposed to higher tax rates than foreign direct investment (FDI) companies in the country.

Two foreign tourists have touched the hearts of local residents in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam after the pair joined in to fortify a local dike near the famed tourist city of Hoi An.

The association behind a food safety survey that found an excessive amount of arsenic in dozens of Vietnamese fish sauces has dismissed allegations that it was sponsored by a condiment maker to carry out the study.

A free high-quality bus service has recently been put into operation for commuters traveling on National Road No.13 between Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc provinces in southern Vietnam.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City have discovered a prostitution ring involving several local models and singers.

Nearly 70% of fish sauce samples taken in a recent survey by the Vietnam Standards and Consumers Association (Vinastas) have been found to contain excessive amounts of arsenic, the non-profit organization has said.

Vietnam may have become the second Asian country, following Thailand, to report a case of microcephaly due to Zika contraction, with a four-month-old girl in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak showing signs of the birth defect.