VIETNAM TODAY

A man was detained at the Ho Chi Minh City airport while trying to check 11 cardboard boxes containing 33 live pangolins on a flight to Hanoi.

Laura Lam writes of her culinary experiences living in the U.S. and England.

The Ministry of Tranport directed concerned departments to find an effective solution for problems on the bridge's surface.

Recent research shows rapid changes have occurred to the bird flu virus (A/H5N1), which could lead to a more deadly, drug-resistant strain of the disease.

Social welfare payments are to be increased by up to 50% for handicapped or people below the poverty line and the safety net has been widened.

The US Congress passed an historic health care overhaul, handing President Barack Obama a landmark win.

A small earthquake struck northern Haiti early Sunday, collapsing an apartment building and killing at least three people, a U.N. spokesman said.

The third “Green Sunday” campaign was launched in Phu Tho province on March 21, attracting 3,000 youth union members and students.

Additional regulations concerning the recruitment and management of foreign employees will take effect in July.

Dang Thanh Tam, one of the country’s richest men, is trying to lure companies from China to his industrial parks with the promise of cheap labor costs.

The Ministry of Transport will stop registering all Toyota cars from the U.S that are subject to technical errors.

The jacket, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam, is an important work in the first phase of a comprehensive development plan of Chim Sao and Dua Field owned by the Premier Oil Company.

Despite the $5M spent on repairing the Thang Long Bridge, after 3 months of operation, cracks have been found on its surface.

The Vietnamese Embassy in the US held a New Year get-together for Vietnamese nationals in Washington DC on March 19.

After Tet, consumer prices often go up in addition to an increase in petrol prices, thus the consumer price index remains high.

Recently, video of a vicious beating has led to many questions, especially why nobody stepped in, writes David Cornish.

A team of Vietnamese and French doctors has operated on nine babies suffering from paralysis in their arms.

Thailand was locked in political stalemate Sunday with demonstrators planning a fresh protest with their own blood after refusing talks offered by the government.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet attended a ground-breaking ceremony of a 100 million littre ethanol plant in the southern province of Binh Phuoc