Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City have succeeded in removing a giant tumor from the pleural cavity of a female patient.

Customs officers at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi have seized more than 300 kilograms of tusks, allegedly belonging to elephants, shipped from Laos Airport in Nigeria on September 29.

Over 19,000 Vietnamese have lost their jobs as a result of the environmental disaster caused by the Vietnamese steel business of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group earlier this year.

Continual downpours since the beginning of this week have revealed poor drainage systems in several parking basements in Ho Chi Minh City, leading to flooded vehicles and upset owners who have yet to receive the appropriate compensation for their damaged property.

Mobile users in Vietnam have expressed their outrage at losing money on unwanted services they have not signed up for.

Despite a law banning public smoking since 2013, smokers in Vietnam have shown been unwilling to obey the regulation.

Noise pollution, especially from music at shops and restaurants, has become an alarming problem in Vietnam’s major cities in recent years.

Genetically-modified (GM) maize can benefit the national economy greatly and aid environmental protection, according to Tran Xuan Dinh, deputy head of Vietnam’s Department of Crop Production.

As the ongoing debate on a possible motorbike ban in Vietnamese cities picks up momentum, a traffic expert has weighed in with his assertion that cars are contributing more to the problem than motorbikes.

Police in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh have apprehended a suspect in the murder of four family members last weekend.