An entrepreneurial couple in Ho Chi Minh City have created a smartphone application capable of creating custom shirts, while online tailoring services continue to gain a foothold.

Authorities in Nha Trang on October 8 discussed a plan proposed by a French architect to expand the coastline of the resort city.

Hospitals in southern Vietnam have recorded a surge in the number of children being admitted over respiratory diseases, most prominently pneumonia, in recent months.

Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh says pollution is a crime against the environment and calls on all major corporations to commit themselves towards environmental protection during their operations.

Provinces and cities across Vietnam are falling into heavy debt after spending big on developing rural areas into new-style rural zones.

Certain interest groups trying to prevent Vietnam’s state-owned enterprises (SOE) from listing on the stock market following their privatization are responsible for causing losses to state coffers, a local finance association warned.

Ho Chi Minh City Police has apprehended a Vietnamese undergraduate who was found responsible for the death of an Australian company director in July, local newswire VnExpress has reported.

Vietnam’s plan to take its total number of coal-fired power plants to 31 by 2020 has raised environmental concerns.

Two people were killed after a man committed suicide by detonating a self-made bomb on October 3 in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh.

Doctors in the central city of Hue have successfully removed a 1.7kg tumor from a 20-day-old baby girl.