Vietnam's population is increasing by over 2,700 people a day as authorities implemented measures to improve family planning services and gender imbalance.

A French woman has found her Vietnamese father after 26 years of contact loss thanks to social network.

HCM City traffic police will intensify alcohol and illegal drug checks among drivers in an attempt to reduce traffic accidents during the Tet holiday.

The largest religious gathering anywhere on earth gets under way Tuesday, with tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims congregating in India to bathe in sacred rivers for the Kumbh Mela.

Tours for the coming Tet Holiday have considerably changed after Taiwan tightened visa rules and Vietnamese tourists died in a recent bomb blast in Egypt.

The second stage of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) has benefited over 6,000 residents in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai.

Around 6.2 million people are living with disabilities in Vietnam, accounting for two percent of the country's population, according to a national survey by the General Statistics Office.