VIETNAM TODAY

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a project on the preservation of saola and other indigenous bovines.

A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.

Thousands of Vietnamese fishermen are giving a royal send-off to a 15-ton dead whale.

David Cornish writes about hometowns, and watching them change from afar.

Thousands of young people from Vietnam’s northern border province of Lang Son and a Chinese youth delegation are attending an spring camp in Lang Son province.

The Afghan immigrant at the center of what the authorities described as one of the most serious threats to the United States since 9/11 pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism charges.

A change in consumption habits and high growth of retail sales are painting a promising picture of retail centre construction investment.

The thick fragrance of joss-sticks is always hanging in the air in Doc La village, Hung Yen province, writes Duc Hanh.

Non-cash payments in Vietnam have grown strongly in line with the growth in middle-income earners and an increasing familiarity with this method of payment among Vietnamese.

The German town of Ludwigfelde hosted an emotional meeting for Vietnamese workers who formerly worked at the well-known IFA automobile manufacturing plant in East Germany 20 years ago.

Le Son village at Van Hoa Commune, Quang Trach, Quang Binh is famous for studying success.

The Vietnamese government has awarded Enovation Resources exploration block 105-110/4 in the Song Hong basin offshore Vietnam.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted a reception to celebrate the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival of Vietnam and China.

It was perhaps the most famous photograph of the Vietnam War -- it shows a little girl running from a napalm attack. That day in 1972 changed Kim Phuc's life forever.

Fearing potential staff cuts, Lufthansa's high-paid German pilots took to the picket lines on Monday, plunging the airline into its longest ever strike and forcing the carrier to cancel hundreds of flights.

Vietnam lessons the U.S. might have learned at Dien Bien Phu.

This morning, after a long Tet holiday, life has been brought back to the streets of Hanoi.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, provinces and cities under central government's direct command must deploy a swimming training pilot programme in all primary schools.

As expected, the stock market had a slight increase after Tet however, transaction volume was not high enough to maintain steady growth.