The statistics on the human trafficking in Vietnam vary hugely and official information is limited. The Vietnam Ministry of Public Security offer the official figure of 2,935 Vietnamese victims of human trafficking between 2004 and 2009, while Hagar International claim the considerably larger total of over 400,000 victims since 1990.

A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people. Hieu N...

A Vietnamese traffic warden was so enraged after a bus driver tried to drive away before he could give him a fixed penalty notice, that he leapt onto ...

Had I known the duck's feet were raw before I put them in my mouth, perhaps I would have been better prepared. These de-boned and de-cartilaged ducks ...

Since the 1960s we have known that pesticides when used without care and attention will cause insect pest outbreaks. But we never seem to learn.

The Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, according to regime’s former second in command. Speaking at the historic war crimes trial in Phnom Pe...

Gary Glitter can leave the UK again after the three-and-a-half year travel ban imposed on him following his conviction for paedophilia came to an end....

In a sentence exceeding some those handed down for murder and rape in the country, Thailand yesterday jailed a grandfather for 20 years, for no more than sending 4 text messages allegedly insulting the country's Queen.

I first visited Vietnam around 20 years ago - at a time when almost everyone travelled by bicycle, and the whole country operated in a somewhat austere style. Having been back regularly since then, I've seen the bicycles transforming into motorbikes, and more recently the motorbikes into cars.

The Javan rhinoceros is perilously close to extinction a wildlife charity has warned after a dead rhino was confirmed to be the last in Vietnam. Th...