Rhinos are being driven to extinction due to the demand for their horns and Vietnam is considered the main market for them, experts have said.

The capital has outlined a plan to restore traditional craft villages, which are rapidly disappearing.

With a few weeks to go until the traditional Mid Autumn Festival which is held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, HCM City is already bustling with people buying mooncakes for relatives and friends.

Petroleum enterprises were asked to cut the retail price of petrol for the second time in the past ten days after a drop in global petrol prices.

There will be a wave of mergers and acquisitions in Vietnam in the next five years when the economy recovers and foreign direct investment surges, an international conference heard in HCM City on August 7.

Vietnam Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic note to the Australian Ambassador in Hanoi opposing a censorship order by the Australian Supreme Court in the state of Victoria as reported by Wikileaks on August 7.

The U19 Uzbekistan team will train in Hanoi-based Youth Football Training Centre until August 9 in preparation for the 2015 AFC U19 Women's Championship qualifiers.

Coach Toshiya Miura has said the doors are still open to all those players who aspire for a victory at the coming ASEAN Football Federation's (AFF) Suzuki Cup.

The Prime Minister has directed concerned ministries and agencies to monitor shrimp production and trade more strictly.

An exhibition of more than 200 photographs and artifacts that reveal the contributions Vietnamese youth have made to national causes, from the Three Readies Movement until today's Youth Volunteer Programme, recently opened in downtown Hanoi.