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Police nab three for providing drugs to clients at Hanoi discotheques
Police in Hanoi have arrested three members of a ring that provided drugs to customers at local bars and discotheques, and have seized from them over 480 grams of drugs and 1,350 synthetic drug tablets.
Finding their roots: Babylift children return to Vietnam
In the chaotic last days of the Vietnam War, the US airlifted thousands of children out of Saigon. Forty years later, many Operation Babylift survivors have returned, looking for answers from a family or country they never knew.
Danang shakes off war past for high-tech future
Forty years after the war in Vietnam, a port synonymous with the fighting is changing its image. Danang was a major US military base, now, it's transforming itself into one of Vietnam's most modern cities.
World failing in fight against antibiotic resistance: WHO
The world is doing far too little to combat the misuse of antibiotics which is fueling drug resistance and allowing long-treatable diseases to become killers, the World Health Organization said on April 29.
Millennia-old jewelry on display in former imperial city
Some 100 jewelry items, many dating back to the Bronze Age, are on display in the central town of Hue.
Vietnam War correspondents return to reminisce
More than 20 foreign correspondents who had covered the Vietnam War that ended four decades ago have arrived in Ho Chi Minh City for an event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the 40th anniversary.
US tourist saved after near fatal 100-foot fall in Sa Pa
A 24-year-old US tourist who fell around 30 meters from a cliff in the mountainous town Sa Pa on April 26 has been saved by top Vietnamese surgeons.
Pride and obscurity: the historic crew of Vietnam's 'Tank 390'
When Tank 390 crashed through the gates of Saigon's presidential palace 40 years ago, it heralded the end of Vietnam's war. But the men who manned it have since lived in obscurity, poor yet forever bonded by the history they created.
Vietnamese photographer sees beauty in nature's violence
Dang Tuan Trung, a 47-year-old architect, is, perhaps, the first known storm chaser in Vietnam, where an average of six to seven typhoons strike every year.
Last elephants dying due to poaching, deforestation
The death of a young elephant in the Central Highlands on March 24 became the latest blow to the shrinking elephant population in Vietnam, which has been pushed to the verge of extinction recently.