VIETNAM TODAY

“I would have only hoped to win a few million dong,” smiled Nguyen Van Het, 97, who won VND7.6 billion in the lottery.

People have lost significant amounts of money on information that was supposed to be free.

Trading prices for US dollars in the banks and black market are quite different.

Transportation services through Hai Van tunnel before and after Tet have been heavily overloaded due to the dramatic increase in demand.

A serious labour shortage has hit nearly 200 enterprises operating in the southern province of Dong Nai after the Tet holiday.

Vietnam and Russia set to further boost collaboration in art and culture.

An investigation to uncover the cause of fierce blazes in Hoang Lien National Park is underway.

Toyota's top U.S. executive told lawmakers on Tuesday that he is not certain the company has fixed its runaway car problems even though it has recalled millions of vehicles around the world.

The Prime Minister recently approved an additional list of 10 ministries in charge of granting and managing certificate of free sales for import and export.

A celebration was held Feb. 23 in Hanoi to mark the 20th birthday of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Hundreds of passengers were left unimpressed with the way Vietnam Airlines handled the cancellation of a flight out of Da Nang Airport.

Tuan Anh explores a place whose name was once synonymous with “Nowhere Land.”

Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Vietnam, announced today the opening of Mercure Hue Gerbera.

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.