Việt Nam had targeted breakthroughs in three prioritised areas this year but efforts have fallen short.

Many localities have issued preferential policies in an attempt to attract and retain doctors at local public hospitals. However, the efforts have seemingly been ineffective as the shortages of doctors remains unsolved.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình on Thursday urged market surveillance forces to step up the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and fake commodities.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) is collecting opinions on a new law which would modify and supplement a number of articles of the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (2008) and the Law on Public Employees (2010).

In a bid to improve the behaviour of civil servants and ensure professionalism and transparency while performing their duties, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) has completed a code of conduct for civil servants.

Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people including a senior civil servant in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

Trần Quyết Chiến, 35, has become the first Vietnamese cueist to ever win the top prize at the Billiards World Cup after beating his countryman Ngô Đình Nại 40-39 in the final of the recent Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup held in HCM City. Thanh Nga talks to him about his career

Malaysians went to the polls on Wednesday in one of the country's closest ever elections which pits scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak against his one-time mentor, 92-year-old former authoritarian leader Mahathir Mohamad.

Kim Thái, 37, a Khmer man living in the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng, wears a broad-brim hat to walk the streets of Long Phú Town, selling lottery tickets to earn a living as he has for the past 13 years.

HCM City should have methods to evaluate the actual work effectiveness of civil servants in order to fairly decide salary increases, according to many representatives and experts.