Authorities in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau are collaborating with a local steel mill in scouring a container of radioactive material which has apparently gone missing for more than three months.

The Ministry of Transport has announced that rights to operate airport services will be sold first to local investors, ending the recent controversy over who should be allowed to enter the business when Vietnam privatizes its aviation sector. 

Vietnam may be forced to water down a new law designed to shore up its pension system after tens of thousands of workers protested against the changes in a strike that lasted nearly a week.

The Ministry of Transport is reviewing contracts signed with POSCO Engineering and Construction after the Korean company is investigated in its home country for operating a slush fund of about 10 billion won (US$8.9 million) in Vietnam.

A court in the southern province of Binh Duong on April 3 gave two brothers death penalties for trafficking over 210 kilograms of heroin in one of the province’s biggest drug cases.

Vietnamese celebrities have put on nail polishes featuring rhinos and other images to support a campaign which raise awareness that rhino horn is made of the same substance as nails.

Like the Notre Dame Cathedral and Independence Palace, Saigon’s five oldest markets have also become iconic landmarks.

The World Bank has debarred American architectural and engineering design firm Louis Berger Group, Inc. (LBG) for one year for allegedly bribing government officials under two WB-financed projects worth around US$500 million in Vietnam.

A Vietnam Airlines aircraft bound for Taipei on April 1 had to return to Hanoi an hour into the flight due to a technical problem, but all 141 passengers were safe.

A photo of two women sewing a giant fishing net in central Vietnam has won the top prize at the world’s famous photo contest organized by US magazine Smithsonian.