The HCM City Traffic Safety Committee and traffic police have called for making penalties for speeding more severe at a meeting held to review a two-month traffic campaign that had run until March 31.

Current and former HCM City leaders and more than 2,000 Buddhist believers, monks and nuns on Sunday participated in a commemoration service for Bodhisattva Thích Quảng Đức, who set himself on fire 55 years ago to protest the repression of Buddhists by the US-backed Sài Gòn administration.  

 A cooperation agreement on child drowning prevention has been signed between the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the Bloomberg philanthropy.

 Two Vietnamese tourists were found stabbed to death in their room at the Circus Circus Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip early Friday morning (US time).

The 13th Hoa phượng đỏ (Red Flamboyant) summer campaign officially began yesterday (June 3) in HCM City with thousands of students taking part in enriching activities, meeting new friends and learning valuable experiences. 

The Giang brothers are through to the final of the popular UK television show, Britain's Got Talent.

Government Decree 67 on preferential policies for aquaculture has helped fishermen in the south central coastal province of Bình Thuận access loans to build high-capacity ships for offshore fishing.

An increasing number of Vietnamese people have opted to claim lump-sum social security payment, essentially withdrawing themselves from the national security system as authorities are striving for universal coverage.

The City Paediatrics Hospital in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District on June 1 officially opened after four years of construction.