Two passenger buses crashed on a highway in Krông Pắk District in the Tây Nguyên Central Highlands of Đắk Lắk on Monday, sending one plunging into a ditch many passengers were injured.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday handed down the death sentence to Nguyễn Hữu Tình, 18, after he admitted to murdering five members of a family in Bình Tân District last February.

A street called Alley 86 which links Thành Thái and Sư Vạn Hạnh streets in HCM City’s District 10 has been named after the late professor Dương Quang Trung, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Nguyễn Hòa Bình said at a workshop in Đà Nẵng yesterday that guidance is needed to ensure the laws against money laundering are effectively carried out.

Raising butterfly lizards is providing a good income to farmers in Ninh Thuận Province since the reptile is in high demanded for its meat.   

When they agreed to join the UN Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, 73 Vietnamese officers knew they would have to leave behind their families to travel to the war-ravaged country.

Businesses illegally shipping in scrap into the country would be prosecuted on smuggling charges this month, said director of the General Department of Customs Nguyễn Văn Cẩn during an online conference.

 National Wage Council yesterday opened its first meeting of this year, discussing on regional minimum wage to be applied next year.

Doctors at HCM City’s District 11 Hospital performed their first pacemaker implant surgery on an 82-year-old woman last week, who is expected to be discharged from the hospital this week.