The Ho Chi Minh People's Court on April 8 upheld a death sentence handed down to the former director of Finance Leasing Company No. 2 (ACL II), who was involved in a major corruption case in 2007.

Vietnam Vu Thi Trang will face fourth seed Wang Yihan of China in the first round of the women's singles at the Singapore Super Series badminton competition today.

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre has just bought a rickshaw used by Queen Mother Tu Minh, mother of King Thanh Thai (1879-1954), at an auction held in Paris.

Export firms have been urged to actively study the mechanism for self-issuing the certificate of origin (C/O) for goods under free trade agreements (FTAs) to boost exports.

Great effort is required by the domestic pharmaceutical companies to expand their share in the medicine market, which is currently largely dominated by imported drugs.

The Indian and Vietnamese textile and apparel industries are more complementary than competing in nature, and so co-operation would result in a win-win situation, the Synthetic and Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council of India has said.

A two-student team from Danang University overcame 628 peers' projects from across 30 universities to come in first place at an urban energy-saving innovation competition held in March.

The eighth edition of Food&Hotel Vietnam (FHV) to be held on April 21-23 will offer industry professionals from Vietnam and the surrounding regions a platform to source from market leaders of the international food and hospitality industry.

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to Syria’s Yamuk Palestinian refugee camp as residents described fleeing in terror after the arrival of jihadists of the Islamic State group.

Lawmakers on April 7 discussed abolishing the death penalty for several crime categories as well as criteria for commuting capital punishment sentences to life imprisonment.