Ho Chi Minh City has plans to make more than 220 hectares (544 acres), or nearly a fifth of its downtown area, exclusive to pedestrians, but experts are questioning the effects of the switch and the challenges it will pose for residents.

People living with HIV/AIDS in Vietnam are struggling to afford life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs as a result of dwindling foreign aid.

The southern metropolis is busy with a lot of plans. Which one gets you excited? 

Vietnamese people in Laos paid homage to Most Venerable Thich Trung Quan, one of the greatest overseas Vietnamese monks, at a ceremony at Bang Long Pagoda in Vientiane on March 26.

More than 26,000 people receive regular dialysis treatment in the country, which helps prolong their life.  

Vietnam joined many other countries around the world during the 2017 Earth Hour late on March 25 with the symbolic action of turning off unnecessary electrical devices for one hour. 

VOV.VN - Five female scientists at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology have been leaders in modern technology research and application.

VOV.VN - James Joseph Kendall, an American English teacher at an elementary school in Hanoi, became famous by chance after he retrieved trash from a polluted ditch in Hanoi, in May 2015.

The Vietnam Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Japan Vietnam Medical Instrument JSC are organising the seminar on the latest MRI technology in musculoskeletal disorders.

Anti-narcotics police investigators have found and seized 113 opium poppies planted in a farmer's garden in Vietnam's northern region, the provincial police said.  

A group of three students at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education has successfully created a vending machine that can dispense a bowl of cooked pho, bubble tea or ready-to-eat banh mi.

Vietnam’s broadcast watchdog has demanded that Google pull more than 2,200 videos with ‘toxic’ content from YouTube, a deputy chief official of the authority confirmed on March 24. 

Creating a safe working environment for employees, contractors, and customers is a vital part of NS BlueScope Vietnam's management strategy.

The central province officially launched the Giao Thuy Bridge--one of the key projects connecting mountainous areas with the provincial centre and Da Nang City - on the occasion of the province’s Liberation Day (March 24).

A workshop was held in the northern mountainous province of Son La on March 24 to review the integration of policies on poverty reduction from 2015 – 2016 and set plans for 2017 – 2020.

Thien Ma – Madagui hipprodome was inaugurated in Da Oai commune, Da Huoai district, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, on March 25.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the residents of Quang Nam for their efforts in making the central province one of 15 localities with the biggest contributions to the State Budget in 2016.

The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) will provide Vietnam US$43 million in soft loan to sustainably improve income and reduce climate vulnerability of farm households in northeastern Vietnam.

A cold spell is predicted to hit Hanoi and the northern region from March 25, causing the temperature to drop significantly.

Thu Duc District Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City implanted a double-chamber pacemaker in the body of a 51-year-woman who had an abnormally slow heart rate on March 23.

Japan and Vietnam have signed an agreement on a technical cooperation project to improve the network of medical laboratories in Vietnam.

The programme on computing education for people with vision impaired was launched at the talking book library for the blind at 18B Dinh Tien Hoang Street, HCM City, on March 25.

The Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 administration has turned a suggestion to having local street vendors meet their customers on the internet, rather than the sidewalks, into a reality.

VOV.VN - Nguyen Van Anh, Founder and Director of the Center for Research and Application of Sciences in Gender-Family-Women and Adolescents (CSAGA), has been selected by Forbes Magazine as one of Vietnam’s 50 most influential women. 

The city aims to open at least one underground parking lot this year.

Authorities said the bomb could still detonate at any time and cause serious damage.

A new cold spell is expected to come to the northern region of Vietnam from tomorrow, March 25, with temperatures in high mountainous areas to drop as low as below 11 degrees Celsius.

The police department for combating corruption and economic crime started criminal proceeding against Hua Thi Phan, a former shareholder of the Dai Tin bank, now the Vietnam Construction Bank (VNCB), and searched her house and office on March 24.

Improving legal institutions on corruption prevention and control in judiciary activities to ensure business benefits in Vietnam was the focus of discussions at a workshop in Hanoi on March 24.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to strengthen its supervision of the implementation of democratic regulations in the educational system.