Severe flooding in central Vietnam has killed at least 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said Monday, as the country braced for further destruction with a typhoon barrelling closer.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered Vietnam a credit line on Saturday of half a billion dollars for defence cooperation, giving a lift to a country rapidly pursing a military deterrent as discord festers in the South China Sea.
A Vietnamese woman paid a friend to cut off her hand and foot in a bid to claim a handsome insurance payout, state-run media reported Thursday.
A ‘jungle woman’ who was discovered scavenging naked by a farmer in Cambodia nine years ago, was reunited with her father in Vietnam on Saturday, her adoptive family said.
Two Vietnamese girls switched at birth have been returned to their biological parents after three years, local media reported on Tuesday.
China vowed to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty in the South China Sea and said it had the right to set up an air defence zone, after rejecting an international tribunal's ruling.
The United States has fully lifted its ban on weapons sales to Vietnam, President Barack Obama announced on Monday during a visit to Hanoi, unpicking a decades-old embargo on the one-time enemy.
At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in a horrific road accident involving two passenger buses and a truck in southern Vietnam on Sunday, state media reported.
Trade, security and human rights will top the agenda when US President Barack Obama visits Vietnam later this month, a State Department official said Tuesday, adding there was ‘no decision’ yet ...
Vietnam has told owners of a Taiwanese-built steel plant to dig up a controversial waste pipe...
Vietnam jailed a well-known political blogger and his assistant on Wednesday for abusing democratic freedom, their lawyer said, in a verdict that stirred public interest and a mix of concern and criticism from rights groups and the United States.
Cultural aspects related to coffee-making and drinking, with emphasis on various distinctive tastes, are among the highlights of 'My Coffee My Identity' festival at Katara, the Cultural Village Foundation.
