Last year, a photograph of a white woman meditating as she sat behind a pot of money on a Phú Quốc Island street caught the attention of Vietnamese Facebook users. Now, local authorities are trying to bring the Russian "begpacker" -- the term for tourists from developed countries who rely on handouts from locals to finance their travels -- to the Russian Consulate in HCM City after she attempted to use a hospital as a hotel room. 

People’s Court in the southern province of Tây Ninh has sentenced two people years in prison for cross-border drug trafficking and transportation.

 Four big universities in Hà Nội on Tuesday committed to work together on training, research and development.

A car crash on the Quảng Ninh-Hải Phòng Expressway killed two people and injured another two, police announced on Wednesday.

Twenty-seven construction works that were built illegally on forest land in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District in the past two year must be dismantled within December.

“I was lucky that it was detected early. That’s why I survived,” said Loan, now 40, who quit her job to fully recover. “But my health is now stable. I start my new job as an accountant next month.”

The Government has urged the Ministry of Information and Communications to build a code of ethics on social networks for internet service providers and users to create a healthy networking atmosphere in the country.

The state-run Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) has suspended the director of the Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Management Board for his failure to ensure the construction quality of the Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway.

Vinmec Medical System and the World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) signed an agreement on October 29 to ensure the systems will conform to the Helsinki Declaration on patient safety in anaesthesiology.