Forty-six labour export companies have had their licences revoked, according to a report by the Department of Overseas Labour (DoLAB), under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

As universities become financially independent, ethnic minority students enrolled in special majors may suffer tuition fee increases when their instituions impose fee levels higher than the Government's ceiling.

The failure to detect cancer early, compounded by the lack of insurance for such detection, has led to a high cancer death rate in Việt Nam.

 The National Assembly’s Judicial Committee urged the Government to complete mechanisms and regulations to monitor citizens’ income, especially public servants with a focus on improving transparency and accountability.

Though illegal sand mining is rampant in the Bảy Núi (Seven Mountains) area in the Mekong province of An Giang, provincial authorities said they are unable to catch any of the miners red-handed.

While housing developers in HCM City are looking for occupants for over 15,000 apartments they have built, city authorities are saying more such apartments are needed to resettle people moved out of their houses for various reasons.

A young woman for the first time has been elected village chief of a Chứt ethnic minority group, the highest hounour in their society, in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Hương Liên Commune.

Đà Nẵng City resident Mai Nguyễn Công Thuận, 20, was inspired by road-trip adventures with friends in remote mountainous areas in Việt Nam to design the first made-in-Việt Nam multi-purpose jacket—a jacket, sleeping bag and packpack—for off-road trekkers and people in flood-affected areas.

Typhoon Damrey killed at least 49 people, left 27 others missing and injured at least 64 people after making its landfall on the south central and Central Highlands provinces since Saturday, according to the latest update of Central Steering Committee for Natural Disasters Prevention and Control.