A Vietnamese multi-sector conglomerate plagued by financial woes over its loss-making agricultural arm has announced that it may sell nearly half of its massive rubber plantation to Chinese partners in the event its proposed debt restructuring plan falls though.

Ho Chi Minh City authorities have proposed more than VND1.8 trillion (US$80.6 million) in improvement projects aimed at dealing with inundation at the city’s major airport and congestion and its entrance.

A local auto engineer in southern Vietnam has successfully put together a homemade helicopter capable of covering short distances at low altitude.

A car parked inside the Terminal T2 at the Noi Bai International Airport suddenly caught fire and burst into flames at first light on September 14, killing the driver inside.

Australian authorities will soon allow the import of fresh Vietnamese dragon fruit into the country, the Australian Embassy in Vietnam has said.

Mass fish deaths have again struck Vietnam, this time in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, with initial test results indicating that algal bloom is to blame.

A Korean passenger who flew business class has been fined by a Vietnamese airport operator for disturbing a Korean Air flight that landed in Hanoi last week.

Parents of LGBT (Lesbian – Gay – Bisexual and Transgender) children often journey a long, painstaking way, sometimes including years of denial, before fully supporting them in the pursuit of their true selves.

Around 22,000 new cases of lung cancer are recorded every year in Vietnam, where the disease is ranked among the top causes of death, doctors said at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City on September 10.

Doctors at Children’s Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City have said they will perform an operation to separate two conjoined twins next month.