Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Vietnam prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged a regional food and agricultural conference to come up with more aggressive solutions to food security and poverty reduction, especially in rural areas.

About 800 dogs were saved from the cooking pot in Vietnam by a navy unit operating on the Mekong River early on Thursday.

Producers and exporters from Europe, the US and Australia have been promoting the sale of farm produce to Vietnam, the country with 80 percent of population living on agricultural production.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is considering a ban on Vietnamese catfish products after finding samples with excess levels of the antibiotic enrofloxacin, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors said citing sources from the Vietnam Trade Commission in Canada.

HANOI - Vietnam has asked Japanese companies to guarantee food exports are radiation-free after disaster struck a Japanese nuclear power plant, official media reported Friday.

Hanoi - Streets in Hanoi, like any Asian metropolis, are filled with hole-in-the-wall restaurants and food vendors.

HANOI -- After chasing off cheap Chinese beer competitors a decade ago, Vietnam's state-run brewers are gearing up to fight a new invasion from Western beer brands. One of their secret weapons is a popular, unpasteurized brew called bia hoi that already enjoys a cult following in parts of the country.

The authorities in Vietnam have fined 5,000 companies for violating food safety regulations, state media reported Wednesday.

HANOI — Health authorities in communist Vietnam suspect the bacterial livestock disease anthrax caused an outbreak of food poisoning in the country's far north, a health official confirmed Wednesday.