Việt Nam News

Five passengers and the driver of a limousine minibus en route to the northern province of Cao Bằng suffered the fright of their lives on October 23 when a moving truck struck their vehicle sending it spinning across the road.

Nearly 20 poor households from a rural commune in the central province of Quảng Trị thought their lives were about to turn around, or at least improve a wee bit, when they were included on a list to receive cattle from a poverty reduction project.

Traffic in Viet Nam often feels like every man for himself, but there are some kind souls on the roads.

Double jeopardy is a key legal concept which stops someone being tried twice for the same crime, but try telling that to a woman scorned.

Hải had worked with the team for 30 years, working tirelessly to protect the residents for free.

Nguyễn Thị N, of Quế Võ District, Bắc Ninh Province, was certainly surprised when she recently received a phone call asking how she felt after falling pregnant.

Đinh Thanh Tùng, 30, of Ngô Quyền District, the northern city of Hải Phòng has been arrested for robbing a gold shop in the nearby province of Quảng Ninh.

People often see rescue workers as young and strong men, because they often work in perilous situations. Few believe that someone can rush into danger when they enter retirement age.

DNA testing might be common on English TV programmes like The Jeremy Kyle Show, but in Việt Nam, it seems its livestock queuing up to find out if the baby is theirs.

Feathers were ruffled and tiaras left askew after the organisers of a beauty pageant in HCM City reneged on a promise to present Hollywood megastar Robert Downey Jr. at an upcoming press conference.

A trial in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, the People’s Court of Hương Khê District, has had to rely on the result of DNA testing to resolve a calf dispute.

Three men in the Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long hvae been convicted of stealing hundreds of ducks and painting them to avoid detection by the owner, Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper reported.

The deputy director of a real estate firm in HCM City refused to get out of his car when ordered by traffic police, saying that the vehicle cost VNĐ5 billion (US$215,700), much more than the VNĐ8 million (around $430) monthly salary of a police officer.

The train between Hà Nội and Hạ Long in the northern province of Quảng Ninh often leaves the station without any passengers.

One ambulance driver in southern Việt Nam certainly seems to think so, as he reportedly abandoned a patient to get his vehicle registration renewed.

The questions are stuck on the school’s notice board, and are changed weekly by Đức.

One young man has successfully built schools for poor ethnic minorities in remote areas raising funds from a very simple source.