Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News

The poor state of Vietnama s roads and other infrastructure poses a major obstacle for foreign investors as the country struggles to boost exports, business leaders said on Tuesday.

Tightened government control over gold exchanges via higher capital requirements for investors could drive them away, exchange managers said.

Two shoeshine boys in downtown HCMC. Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnam's street children.

Electricity of Vietnam is seeking government permission to regroup its 11 subsidiaries into five large corporations as a way to heighten competition in the power sector.

RICHMOND, Va. - A Vietnamese immigrant who sent his congressman a bloodstained letter vowing to decapitate a U.S. consular official was acquitted of two charges Thursday.

Four a oenutritious gruela producers in Ho Chi Minh City were closed temporarily Wednesday as they were found operating in unhygienic conditions.

Produce at city markets is chock full of dangerous additives, and while the label might say a oemade in the USA,a it probably comes from China.

The City of Johannesburg has written off a staggering R2.8-billion in debt - or a 10th of its 2009-2010 budget.

IBM says it's been hired to build an e-government cloud for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, the one-time capital of South Vietnam.

Ongoing hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand are believed to be jeopardising the completion of the Trans-Asian Railway.

The 350 room hotel is to be built in the city centre in District 1 and is scheduled to open in 2012.

The architectural character of Ho Chi Minh City lacks coherence, creativity and a specific identity of its own, experts said at a meeting held last week.

People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.

Police escort Vu Van Luan, Tran Van Khoa and Ngo Chi Huan from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City late October.

When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.

Telstra International, a leading global provider of managed network solutions, today unveiled a series of initiatives to deepen its connectivity in key Asian growth markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Health experts Wednesday were troubled by news that Ho Chi Minh City hospitals are discharging 20,000 cubic metres per day of untreated wastewater into public sewers and rivers.

It sounds like the plot of a tear-jerking movie a ' a nurse travelled to Vietnam to help an orphaned boy with a horrific skin disorder.

This is the best time of the year to visit the Indo-China region.This is the time of the year when the climate changed from hot and humid to cooler weather, possibly a spin-off from the winter in the Himalayas.The cool breeze takes heat off the land making it much more pleasant to walk around without suffering the intense heat of the hot and humid ...

SMITH LAKE -- Wayne Patton doesn't consider himself a hero, but in a dense jungle on March 26, 1970, he sure acted like one.