VIETNAM TODAY

The price of Golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata or Chinese three-striped box turtle) in Vietnam is around VND300 million (nearly $15,000) per kilo. In China and Hong Kong, the price is nearly VND1 billion ($50,000) per kilo.

Search crews have recovered the body of the second pilot killed when two Su-22 fighter jets crashed into the sea while on a training exercise two weeks ago.

Clemency was granted to 416 inmates at Dong Son Prison in central Quang Binh province on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of national reunification.

A little girl running from napalm, US soldiers burning houses, US planes spraying Agent Orange. These are pictures showing the ferocity of the Vietnam War more than 40 years ago.

Construction of an international passenger port that can accommodate giant cruise liners carrying 5,000 - 6,000 passengers and 20,000-tonne cargo ships began on Phu Quoc Island on Wednesday (29 April).

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung underscored the need to bring into full play the spirit of the great Victory of 1975 spring and strive for a more prosperous country in his speech delivered at a commemoration ceremony of the

Desperate survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people clashed with riot police in Nepal's capital on Wednesday, as the United Nations appealed for US$415 million for the devastated Himalayan nation.

The total revenue from retail trade and services reached approximately US$48.5 billion during the first four months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said.

Four decades of reunification have brought about remarkable economic growth and improvement in the Vietnamese people’s standard of living, social welfare and the nation’s infrastructure.

Vietnam's leaders met in HCM City this morning (April 30) ahead of military parades and fireworks and festivals to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of 10,000-day war of liberation and national Reunification Day.

A collection of portraits and posters from the Anti-American War in the south by veteran artist Le Lam is on show at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.

The first metro line in HCM City will become operational in 2020 and will greatly impact the city's property market, a CBRE Viet Nam report released on Wednesday in HCM City revealed.

Australia's team, Howard and Sons, won the 2015 Da Nang International Fireworks Competition for its fireworks and musical performance at the festival called, "The Symphony of Colours."

Vietnam hope to win the ASEAN Women's Football Championship starting on May 1 in HCM City.

Having two children in the house can be tiring, but I have 35, so it is exhausting."

Minister Consellor of the Vietnamese Embassy to India, Tran Quang Tuyen, left India for Nepal on April 29 to continue aiding Vietnamese nationals trapped in the country, according to the embassy.

Vietnamese embassies in Algeria, Angola and Romania recently held activities to mark the 40th anniversary of southern liberation and national reunification (April 30).

A number of hotels in the northern mountain province of Lao Cai have been fined for charging exorbitant prices online -- more than USD1,000 a night -- during the national Reunification Day and May Day Holiday, a local official said.

There are 16 Vietnamese nationals in Nepal that we know of that have been caught up in the earthquakes— but at this moment we have no reports of any killed or injured, according to Tran Quang Tuyen of the