State-run VTV4 reports that 22 people stood trial this past week in Vietnam's Phu Yen province for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government. Dozens of activists and bloggers have been jailed since the government began a crackdown in 2009. ...

Facebook was blocked in Vietnam until 2009 due to government concern that it would become a tool of dissidents. Now, the country has the most Facebook users in Asia. But as state-run VTV4 reports, the new worry is that the social networking site i...

Vietnam's economy has boomed for the past decade, reaching the World Bank's "middle income" status. Increasing wealth means access to more of life's little luxuries, like pets. According to Vietnamese broadcaster VTV4, pets are becoming a status s...

After growing at nearly ten percent a year in the past decade, Vietnam's economy will be lucky to reach half that in 2012. As a result, Vietnamese are curbing consumption and saving more. Vietnamese broadcaster VTV4 reports on what this means for ...

Vietnam has voiced strong opposition to China's "illegal actions" in sending fishing boats to the Spratly Islands. Official broadcaster VTV4 spoke with Vo Van Trac of the Vietnam Fisheries Association about the impact of China's power play on Viet...

Europe is far and away the largest market for Vietnamese wood products, an important staple of the country's exports. Vietnamese broadcaster VTV4 reports on the effect of Europe's debt crisis on the wood products industry.

Nick Ut (above, left) of the Associated Press took one of the Vietnam War's most iconic photos, of Kim Phuc (above, right) running from a napalm attack. On the other side of the conflict, Doan Cong Tinh of the Vietnam People's Army Newspaper, was ...

A new contest is pitting the most beautiful places in the world against each other, and Vietnam's Halong Bay is hoping to be one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature when the voting finishes on November 11. Broadcaster VTV4 has more.

Southeast Asia is reeling from some of the worst flooding in decades, leaving huge areas in turmoil and many people angry. In Vietnam, however, state-run broadcaster VTV4 reports that local officials are carefully working with farmers to minimize ...

In Vietnam, health authorities are reporting an ever-growing incidence of what used to be a disease for rich societies: diabetes. Four percent of the population now suffers from diabetes, and an additional 10 percent are in a “pre-diabetic&r...