President Barack Obama nominated Reno attorney Miranda Du on Tuesday to serve as a federal judge in Las Vegas.

American lawmakers raced against the clock on Sunday to forge a last-minute deal that could raise the U.S. debt ceiling by $2.8 trillion and provide assurance to financial markets that the United States will avoid default.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court yesterday sentenced two men to death for killing a woman and throwing her body in a river last year.

On the morning of July 8, a man on a dark-blue scooter stopped outside a rental room on National Highway 13 in Ho Chi Minh City’s Thu Duc District.

Bui Tien Dung, former general director of the Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18), who is serving 16 years in prison for bribery and other crimes, has been given 7 more years for abusing position and power on duty.

The Ministry of Transport has proposed a ban on the consumption of alcohol in public offices during working hours as well as lunch and other breaks.

The Hacker Vietnam Association has got a taste of its own medicine with hackers launching two DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on its forum this month.

Toyota Vietnam has suspended for three months an engineer who exposed technical faults in manufacturing leading to the biggest vehicle recall in Vietnamese history earlier this year.

Police detained and questioned a man at a market in Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen province Wednesday after he tried to sell his 6-month-old son.

IT forums on the Internet estimate that more than 1,500 Vietnamese websites have been hacked in the last few days.

A man who was twice sentenced to death and who was recently set free on insufficient evidence could face another trial, the fifth so far in a 7-year justice battle as prosecutors Monday decided to overturn the court’s recent acquittal verdict.

The leader of the UDIC real estate trading floor in Hanoi was arrested for allegedly forcing a customer to pay an extra VND4.4 billion (US$214,000) to buy an apartment.

The former general director of the Transport Ministry’s Project Management Unit 18, who is already serving 16 years in prison, will be brought to court again later this month to face embezzlement charges.

A series of new regulations on food safety will be applied next month as part of the Law on Food Safety and Hygiene that will come into force as of July 1.

Turkish hackers allegedly penetrated internet service provider FPT Telecom’s server computer Tuesday and changed the homepage interface of some websites hosted there.