Duong Thi Hoa and Nguyen Hong Ngan won two bronze medals for Vietnam on the eighth day of competition at the Sakha Republic’s (Yakutia) Children of Asia Games.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has said it will step up checks of service establishments that are likely to surreptitiously employ sex workers to combat prostitution.

When a local official informed her last year that her family was no longer poor, the 42-year-old woman in Ward 15 in HCM City’s District 8 was not happy.

Nguyen Trung Kien and Dinh Thi Hue lost to Singaporean rivals in the final moments of the Southeast Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships' U18 mix double final on July 11.

Short video clips detailing the life of “Vietnam’s Tarzan”, a man who grew up in the jungle after his father fled American bombs, will soon be released on the travel website Docastaway.

Multi-level marketing companies have been discovered indulging in tax fraud worth several billion Vietnamese dong and the sale of fake goods, the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Competitive Management Department said.

While customers of all mobile networks complain about slow 3G services, network operators say their 3G network capacity is large and speed is sufficient.

Vietnam made a good start at the ASEAN Football Federation U16 Championship when they beat Malaysia 3-0 in the Group A opener in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 10.

Ly Thi Hai Sai won a bronze medal for Vietnam in the girls’ high jump event at the ongoing Children of Asia International Sports Games in Sakha Republic (Yakutia).

Business performance at commercial banks is forecast to continue its upwards trend this quarter after making some improvements in the first half of the year, a State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) survey said