Ho Chi Minh City is set to begin implementing two projects worth over VND21 trillion (US$944.7 million) for flood control and sewage management in the near future.

A woman had her neck cut by steel sheets and lost her life on September 25 in an accident in Hanoi that was similar to the one killing a little boy two days earlier, leading to an argument about who was at fault.

A US author has presented a life-size statue of legendary Vietnamese spy Pham Xuan An to his family.

A Vietnamese cable TV station has acquired the rights to broadcast live UEFA Champions League matches for the 2016-2018 period, its general director said recently.

The Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings) has recognized a little girl as the country’s youngest songstress.

A Vietnamese girl came out atop hundreds of other submissions to a letter-writing competition with a touching letter from the perspective of the Syrian refugee boy who drowned last year in the Mediterranean Sea.

The source of the unpleasant odor wafting through the southern end of Ho Chi Minh City has been confirmed to originate from rubbish buried at a major waste treatment zone.

The banning of motorbikes in major Vietnamese cities to combat worsening traffic congestion is once again on the table after Hanoi’s Department of Transport has unveiled  its plan to restrict non-resident motorbikes  from entering the capital by 2025.

The winner of a Vietnamese beauty pageant organized in Moscow nearly a decade ago appeared in court on September 21 on fraud charges, after conning a local businessman of nearly US$740,000 in 2013.

Vietnamese goods remain stranded at sea after cargo ships owned by the Korean shipping line Hanjin refused to dock for fear of being held hostage to debt payment demands.