The HCM City People’s Court on August 19 handed down the death penalty to a Nigerian for drug trafficking.

Vietnam and Saudi Arabia have agreed to boost information exchange to promote trade in agricultural products such as rice, seafood, tea and coffee.

Vietnam is a land of opportunity and Thai investors should create both “aggressive and passive” business plans to maximize benefits when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is formed in 2015, a trade specialist says.

(VOV) - Two Vietnamese dance and music troupes will make a performance tour of the US as part of a cultural exchange programme.

Hitachi Asia Ltd announced the establishment of its subsidiary firm in Ho Chi Minh City on August 5, giving the company greater access to one of the region’s most promising economies.

Young Vietnamese businesspeople working in creative industries are encouraged to join a global competition launched by the British Council.

A collection of poems and prose pieces by dozens of modern Vietnamese and Thai writers just hit the bookshelves in Hanoi on August 5.

Nguyen Thanh Tung pocketed a second gold medal for Vietnam on August 4 at the World Games in Cali, Colombia.

American surgeon McKay McKinnon and a team of Vietnamese doctors have successfully removed large tumours from the faces of two local patients during eight-hour surgeries.

The State Bank of Vietnam this week instructed its branches across the country to closely monitor and inspect consumer loans from commercial banks.