Vietnam needs VND7.6 trillion, or roughly US$365 million, for the treatment of HIV-positive people in the 2013-2020 period, but such an amount is difficult to mobilize given the tight State [ … ]

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a local man to 20 years in prison for instigating the killing of another man in 2011 over US$1.92 in loan interest.

The thermometer of 1.16 m long, 0.31 m wide, is said to be the treasure of the elite in the resort city of Da Lat (Lam Dong Province) in the 40s.

Hand-Foot-Mouth disease (HFMD) is now at its peak, having infected a total of 796 children in HCM City in April, an increase of 127 per cent against the same period last year.

With Vietnam’s poverty standard line ruled as earning just VND500,000 (US$24) per capita a month, meaning less than one US dollar a day, it is certainly hard to live ‘below the line’, but yo [ … ]

The Thu Duc Animal Quarantine Station and a traffic police unit in Ho Chi Minh City caught a bus carrying rotten pork into the city yesterday. The same bus and driver were stopped two weeks [ … ]

One year after a horrific accident on the Serepok river in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak occured, killing 34 people and critically injuring dozens more, Le Van Hieu, one of the f [ … ]

Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, detected and seized 12 heroin cakes from two Vietnamese-Australian women who were about to fly to Australia on Tuesday.

 Due to conflicts while drinking, the vice police chief of Tra Van commune in Nam Tra My district, the central province of Quang Nam, killed one and injured two others with a knife.

According to VietNamNet’s sources, by May 20, HCM City police arrested nearly 40 people who were involved in a male prostitution network. This is the first large-scale male prostitution ring [ … ]