Football icons and longtime rivals Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo joined Spanish sports stars around the world in expressing their grief after Thursday's terror attack in Barcelona.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc wanted the aviation industry to tighten security and safety as it was an important issue in the current situation.

Medical authorities in the Mekong Delta Province of Bến Tre have stepped up a prevention campaign against Streptococcus suis bacteria, a pig-based pathogen capable of transmission to human beings.

The People’s Committee of Hà Tĩnh central province has decided to withdraw the licence for an iron exploitation project that is yet to be implemented after nine years.

The SP2 train, which runs from the northern mountainous Lào Cai Province to Hà Nội, derailed early on Monday at Hà Nội’s Yên Viên station, but there were no casualties.

The HCM City Music Conservatory is organising a summer music camp to provide participating youth with a platform to showcase their talents during their annual break from school.

An additional VNĐ20 trillion (US$883 million) needed for infrastructure projects by 2020 will have to come from the city budget as well as from private sources, as disbursement of state budget funds remains slow, the deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, has said.

While Jordan Spieth won the Claret Jug in an epic finish, Johnny Miller showed a total lack of class, Robert Bicknell reports.

The HCM City’s District 1 People’s Committee has announced that the district’s first two street vendor spaces will open on August 28.

There are many positive instances of administrative reforms where procedures and time taken to get certificates and documents have been reduced considerably, but the best of administrative reforms will fall short if civil servants do not behave with the clear understanding they are there to serve the public.