Tag: Vietnam

US President Barack Obama told communist Vietnam on Tuesday that basic human rights would not jeopardise its stability, in an impassioned appeal for the...

Animal protection groups, who pleaded in vain for the cats to be spared, fear many of the creatures were alive when they were buried.

  A military helicopter crashed into a residential area on the fringes of Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Monday, killing 16 people and seriously injuring five,...

Vietnam flooded major cities with police to avert anti-China protests on Sunday, while Beijing evacuated thousands of citizens after a flare-up over disputed sovereignty...

HANOI- More than 20 people were killed in Vietnam and a huge foreign steel project set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Vietnam and the Philippines pushed for stronger action to confront China's aggressive behavior in the South China Sea in the first regional...

Vietnamese police have broken up anti-China protests in two cities and detained 20 people in the first such demonstrations since tensions between the communist...

Primary schoolchildren in part of southern Vietnam were given a day off on Monday after a number of crocodiles escaped from a farm and...

A critically endangered turtle that somehow made it to Vietnam decades ago has been returned to its original home: Cambodia. The mangrove terrapin was...

A court in southern Vietnam jailed three bloggers Monday for "anti-state propaganda", including one whose case has been raised by US President Barack Obama,...

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ordered those responsible for three "slanderous" blogs, which have publicised a recent string of high-level corruption scandals,...

An aspiring Vietnamese mechanic has proved he is the ultimate Batman fan by designing a prototype of the caped crusader's motorbike, the Batpod. Motorbikes may...

A new species of fish with a male organ on its head has been identified in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, researchers said on...

A Vietnamese airline has been fined for hosting a mid-flight dance by bikini-clad beauty pageant contestants without first gaining permission, state media said Thursday....

From deformed infants to grandparents with cancer, families near Vietnam's Danang Airbase have long blamed the toxic legacy of war for their ills, but...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday for talks on boosting trade as the United States bids to shore up its...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited a major base used by US forces in the Vietnam War Sunday, as Washington seeks to deepen ties with...