A forest protection officer in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong was killed on August 8, allegedly in an attack by illegal loggers.

A court in Hanoi on August 9 sentenced a man to seven years in prison for human trafficking after his victim escaped a brothel in China and reported the case to the police.

Sixty-three civets, a protected species in Vietnam, have been saved by police in northern Vietnam when they were being smuggled to restaurants and slaughterhouses.

Two more old trees on one of Ho Chi Minh City's most beautiful streets will be felled to make way for urban development.

Hai Phong will play without its two Jamaican strikers in the next three matches in Vietnam’s top flight V.League as part of punitive measures handed down by the Vietnam Football Federation on August 4.

A Japanese national was found carrying 5kg of undeclared gold at Noi Bai airport on August 4, airport customs said.

German-owned energy company Terra Wood Vietnam is reportedly seeking permission to develop two power plants at US$400 million in the central province of Quang Ngai. 

Forest officials in Thanh Hoa Province have fined a man VND5.2 million (US$230) for killing three monkeys caught in the wild.

A rescue team from Animals Asia has freed a moon bear from his small cage in Lam Dong Province in Vietnam's Central Highland.

Though consumer confidence in Vietnam dropped slightly in the second quarter, the country is the seventh most optimistic country globally, according to the latest survey from information and measurement firm Nielsen.