Six members of a transnational drug smuggling ring received the death sentence on Thursday in northern Quảng Ninh Province.

Nguyễn Thanh Phong, director general of the Department of Food Safety under the Ministry of Health, talks to Vietnam News Agency about positive changes in food safety management in Việt Nam

The High-Level People’s Court in Hà Nội yesterday began to hear the appeals of Hà Văn Thắm, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OceanBank), and his accomplices for their wrongdoings at the bank.

With the title of Bare Feet, Steel Will, the exhibition reflected the strong will and courage of the elite people who decided to follow President Hồ Chí Minh’s determination to gain independence.

Hà Nội People’s Court on Monday handed sentences to five Republic of Korea (RoK) and Vietnamese who conned Vietnamese labourers into working in South Korea.

The Hà Nội People’s Court started hearing an appeal by former National Assembly member Châu Thị Thu Nga on Tuesday in the VNĐ377 billion (US$16.8 million) property scam case.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on April 5 handed down a jail sentence of 15 years to Nguyễn Văn Đài for “trying to overthrow the people’s administration” under Clause 1, Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code.

The People’s Court in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has sentenced 27 defendants in a case of illegal trading of value added tax (VAT) invoices.

Thousands of Brazilians demonstrated on Tuesday in favor of prison for former president and election frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the eve of a Supreme Court ruling on whether he should start serving a 12 year sentence for corruption.