Việt Nam News

The main job of the police is to prevent crime and investigate criminals. That’s the expectation worldwide that even a six year-old child can tell.

This explains the public uproar in Việt Nam when a police officer leading a gang of five beat a couple to the point where the man was covered with blood and his pregnant fiancée fainted. The incident happened only a few weeks ago, in July, in Cẩm Xuyên District of central Hà Tĩnh Province.

The use of millions of dong from the state budget by a Government official from the central Bình Định province to study what turned out to be a fraudlent PhD course abroad has stirred public outcry in recent days.

A joke about a customer going to a tattoo shop to get tattoos all over her body to clarify the various body parts has gone viral after a series of medical errors involving wrong-site surgeries have recently occurred in Việt Nam.

People are asking why it has become increasingly common for leaders who are at the end of their tenures to appoint staff to leadership positions in State agencies and corporations in a non-transparent fashion.

The Hague’s Arbitral Tribunal on Tuesday finally rendered its long-awaited landmark ruling on the case of the Philippines versus China over claims to the East Sea (South China Sea). 

Summers are hot and humid in southern Việt Nam, as elsewhere in the country, and there is nothing surprising or controversial about local leaders traveling to and for work in air-conditioned cars.

When people with different ideas come together and argue, it benefits not just the individual participants, but society as a whole, because the merits and demerits of an idea or project get highlighted, helping the public (and the Government) make informed choices.

It’s not that they don’t know that smoking kills. It just means that it will take a lot more to get people to quit than just telling them that smoking will kill them someday.

A Comprehensive OR Strategic Partnership?

Right after buying Big C - the biggest supermarket chain in Việt Nam - for more than US$1 billion, Thai’s Central Group allegedly requeested higher rates of discount from Vietnamese suppliers.

The massive fish death along the central coastal areas of Việt Nam over the last few weeks raises many questions about the responsibility of the media, the reaction of the public, the lack of timely response from the Government and how Việt Nam is to balance its economic development with protecting the environment.

Floriane Ortega, Regional and Urban Planning Officer of Asconit Consultants talks about Hà Nội's updated Master Transport Plan.

The images from a video clip of two young girls falling on the road and screaming in pain for help after being attacked with acid by two male strangers on March 30 in HCM City.

Việt Nam’s Mekong Delta is facing severe drought and critical inland salination at the same time. El Nino and the shortage of water to the delta due to dams built by countries in the upper Mekong mainstream are the main causes; however, Vietnamese water reserve policies are also part of the story.

When the authority listens to their people