The number of dead people due to typhoon Damrey now raised to 69, 20 people higher than the Monday report of central and south central localities – where the typhoon churned through.

Hoàng Thị Minh Hồ, 104, wife of patriotic bourgeois Trịnh Văn Bô, who made generous contribution to the revolutionary government, passed away on Sunday.

Continuous heavy rains have worsened the inundation due to heavy floods that occurred on Sunday morning in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The Điện Biên Province Border Guards, in co-ordination with the Laos’ Phongsaly Province's Security Headquarters, during the early hours of Tuesday, destroyed a complex heroin trafficking ring.

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.