David Cohen is apparently the only western street vendor in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. And he's doing well. 

Amid unabated criticism about the quality of tourist services in Vietnam, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has released a survey showing that more than 94% of foreign visitors to the country rank their experience as "good" to "very good."

The daily life of Vietnamese people, particularly of local women, more than a hundred years ago, was vividly featured in dozens of paintings by French painters who visited the country during the period.

Prosecutors in the southern province of An Giang have charged two local women for trafficking 21 women to China.

A dying male dolphin was found off the coast of Binh Dinh Province on May 17, near a temple where a dead female dolphin was buried exactly a year earlier.

The Vietnamese government will continue to apply price ceilings on formula for babies under 6 years old until December 31 next year, as local prices remain higher than those of many countries in Southeast Asia. 

Russian police have arrested two Vietnamese men who allegedly killed and trafficked parts of the endangered Siberian tiger, local media reported.

Ho Chi Minh City police have proposed smuggling charges against four people for allegedly importing luxury vehicles from the US under the names of overseas Vietnamese to evade over VND218 billion (US$10 million) in taxes.

Some 250 artifacts, most of them never before shown in public, are on display at the Ho Chi Minh City History Museum.

"Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass," a highly anticipated movie, will be brought to the Cannes Film Festival later this month, with the hope to find an international distributor.