The Ben Thanh underground station in District 1, going down four floors and the largest and most modern on HCMC’s metro line No.1, is complete and awaits commercial operation.
Police in the southern Hau Giang Province arrested a married couple on Friday for attempting to smuggle 18 people into South Korea to work under the guise of tourism.
Amid escalating tensions between neighbors in urban areas, the growing pet trade exposes a critical regulatory gap, underscoring the urgent need for noise and cleanliness guidelines.
A female passenger left behind a suitcase containing cash, gold, and diamonds worth nearly VND300 million (US$11,800) in a public area of Hanoi’s Noi Bai airport on Thursday afternoon.
A Chinese director of a wood processing firm in southern Dong Nai Province has been arrested for alleged negligence, resulting in a boiler explosion that killed six people last week.
Heatstroke has killed 61 people in Thailand so far this year, more than in all of 2023, the health ministry said on Friday after weeks of scorching weather across the region.
Japan plans to start providing flood risk maps for Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia next fiscal year to help the Southeast Asian countries reduce damage from flooding.
Malaysia incurred losses totaling MYR277 billion (US$58 billion) as a result of corruption over the past five years, Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Azam Baki said.
Nguyen Van Binh, head of the Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, has been arrested for allegedly disclosing state's classified information.
A 23-year-old Lao woman in Hanoi lost 40 kg after consuming toilet bowl cleaners, rendering her unable to consume food normally – but modern healthcare saved her.
Indonesia experienced its hottest April in more than four decades, two senior weather agency officials said Wednesday, as the region endures a suffocating heat wave and global temperatures break records.
Vietnam rejects inaccurate and biased assumptions included in a U.S. religious freedom report, adding that the Southeast Asian nation would continue open exchanges on the matter with its American partners.
An actor who appeared in the TV series "Canh sat hinh su” (Criminal police) has been jailed for taking bribes by masquerading as a Supreme People's Court official.
Many students are worried their university results will be canceled or their current applications will be rejected after 56,200 IELTS certificates were found to be in violation of regulations.
Thailand will re-list cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, its prime minister said this week, in a stunning U-turn just two years after becoming one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalize its recreational use.
Two Cambodian and Chinese nationals were deported from Singapore after being convicted of laundering over S$3 billion (US$2.2 billion) in Singapore's largest-ever money laundering case.
Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration.
More than 100,000 packets of sliced bread have been recalled in Japan after parts of a black rat’s body were discovered inside two of them, the manufacturer said on Wednesday.
A 64-year-old German man died while his 61-year-old wife was injured in a traffic accident that occurred on Wednesday morning in the northern province of Hoa Binh.
Malaysia intends to gift orangutans to palm oil-purchasing countries as part of an initiative similar to China's panda diplomacy, the commodities minister said on Wednesday.
Le Thanh Hai, former Ho Chi Minh City Party Secretary, has been recommended for disciplinary action by the Central Inspection Committee for violations linking to disgraced property developer Van Thinh Phat.
A court in Da Nang City sentenced a man to life imprisonment for counterfeiting VND900 million (US$35,484) in VND500,000 denominations and selling them on the market.
The director of a forensic center in Quang Ngai Province is on trial for taking bribes to falsify reports, which enabled five people to get their jail sentences suspended.
Cambodia has no obligation to provide more information about a $1.7 billion China-funded upgrade of a canal connecting the Mekong River basin to the Cambodian coast, the country's deputy prime minister told Reuters.
A 64-year-old Vietnamese-American woman fell into a coma two days after undergoing multiple cosmetic surgeries at a HCMC private hospital, never recovered consciousness and died a month later.