Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

HANOI — Police have confiscated the carcass of an endangered wild tiger from a Hanoi restaurant where it was being boiled down to make an expensive traditional medicine.

Hanoi - A wild elephant was found hacked to death with its tusk cut off in a protective forest in a southern province of Vietnam, news reports said Monday.

The belief that powdered rhino horn cured cancer is being blamed for surge in demand that has wiped out three species

HANOI — Vietnam customs officials on Monday said they had seized more than a tonne of ivory, believed to be from elephant tusks, being smuggled on the country's border with China.

HANOI — A buffalo about to be slaughtered at a restaurant escaped and rampaged through the streets of Vietnam's capital, injuring one man and throwing traffic into chaos, police said Friday.

Conservation group WWF on Wednesday called for urgent action to prevent the extinction of freshwater dolphins in the Mekong River, including the creation of special conservation zones.

HANOI - The Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources recently uncovered blood-sucking bugs in at least seven places in Ha Noi's inner districts including Ha Dong, Thanh Xuan and Gia Lam thanks to local resident reports.

HANOI — The owner of a private zoo in Vietnam has been jailed for three years for selling the endangered tigers that he was supposed to protect, a conservation group and officials said Friday.

The 1,000 white pigeons which Pham Tai Thu trained for Hanoi's millennium celebrations were meant to be a lasting symbol of peace in a country that survived decades of war.

Vietnam has become a key conduit in a robust black market that is threatening tigers, rhinos and elephants with extinction, organizers of a two-day workshop to enhance enforcement efforts said Thursday.

Hanoi - An aggressive herd of elephants is frightening villagers in Vietnam's Central Highlands, but a local official said Thursday that requests to remove the elephants were 'not feasible.'

HANOI — South African officials were in Vietnam Wednesday to discuss ways of curbing the illegal trade in rhinoceros horns used in traditional Asian medicine, a conservation group said.

Four men in Vietnam's Central Highlands have been charged with cutting off the tusks and tails of captive elephants at tourist sites, a police official said Tuesday.

Hanoi - Authorities in Vietnam's Central Highlands have brought criminal charges against a restaurant owner accused of trafficking endangered wild animals, a local official said Friday.

Police in Vietnam's capital seized hundreds of pounds of bones from endangered tigers and other animals in raids targeting suspected poachers who hunt animals for traditional medicines, state media reported Friday.