Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Many companies that participated in HCM City's Tet price-stabilisation programme are struggling to liquidate the stocks they had built up following unusually sluggish demand during the year's biggest festival.

Robusta sellers in top producer Vietnam jacked up premiums to offset declines in London futures, while beans from the new harvest in Indonesia began entering the physical market and were snapped up by roasters, dealers said on Friday.

Fees for hundreds of medical services at public hospitals are expected to increase up to five times the current rates issued in 1995, Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tuyen said at an online forum recently.

HANOI - Vietnam has extended its condolences for late Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered both war and peace in the country he came to love.

Nearly 100 workers and engineers Thursday started seismic surveys at the location of Vietnam’s first nuclear power plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan, a local news website reported the same day.

When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard.

A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities.

The Da Nang International Airport this year is expected to receive 3.6 million visitors, a 20 percent increase against last year, and annual turnover is expected to jump 178 percent for non-flight services against last years figures.

Cambodia's total exports to Vietnam had risen 54.87 per cent in 2011 year-on-year, officials said.

Hanoi - Hanoi police were seeking a fugitive former finance official for defrauding the public out of property worth millions of dollars, state media said Monday.

Pretty young girls, mainly around 19-20 years old, play the role of hosts at the restaurants. They are hired to receive foreign men in secluded rooms for karaoke singing and then join the men in their homes after 23:30pm.

HANOI - Buffeted by persistent double-digit inflation, slowing economic growth and rising worker unrest, Vietnam's economic reforms are at risk of coming undone. While Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized this month the need to maintain quick and sustainable growth, questions are rising whether Vietnam can have both amid global economic and financial turbulence.

HANOI — From irreverent cartoons to "depraved" short stories, Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors who experts say are struggling to accept an increasingly brash literary scene.

Seventeen asylum-seeker children suspected of being trafficked from Vietnam have vanished from immigration centres across the country, and authorities admit they have not been searching for them.

In recent years the Vietnamese music industry has been lit up by a new generation of emerging female artists who can write their own songs and perform them with their hearts and their talent.