Vietnam Archives

The main entrance gate of Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court. Vietnam has some of the toughest drug laws in the world

Life

Two S. Koreans among 18 sentenced to death in Vietnam drug bust: state media

Two South Koreans were among 18 people sentenced to death on drug smuggling and trafficking charges in Vietnam, state media said. The communist country...

AFPNovember 11, 2023

Hoang Thi Minh Hong, pictured here in 2022, is the fifth Vietnamese environmentalist jailed for tax evasion

World

‘Severely punished’: Vietnam environmental activists face crackdown

The country's communist government tolerates no opposition to its one-party rule and regularly jails critics.

AFPOctober 25, 2023

Business

Vietnam’s VinFast struggles to sell electric cars at home

Vietnam’s VinFast has grand ambitions of selling its electric vehicles in the United States and Europe to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s...

AFPOctober 17, 2023

Le Thi Thu Thuy, CEO of Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast, says the path ahead looks less challenging than the past

Business

VinFast share volatility ‘normal’: chief executive

The dramatic fluctuation in shares of Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast is “normal”, its chief executive told AFP on Friday, insisting the company was...

AFPSeptember 29, 2023

Hoang Thi Minh Hong is at least the fifth green campaigner in Vietnam to be jailed on tax evasion charges in the last two years

World

Vietnam court jails climate activist for tax evasion

Vietnam jailed a leading climate activist for three years for tax evasion Thursday, a sentence her family condemned as “unfair”, as the communist state...

AFPSeptember 28, 2023

Hoang Thi Minh Hong is at least the fifth green campaigner to be jailed on tax evasion charges in the last two years as Vietnam's authoritarian government steps up a crackdown on activists

World

Vietnam court jails climate activist for tax evasion: lawyer

A Vietnamese court on Thursday jailed a leading climate activist for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the communist government. The...

AFPSeptember 28, 2023

Hundreds gather outside a Hanoi morgue to hear if their families were victims of a fire that killed more than 50 people

World

‘Whole family gone’: families identify victims of Hanoi fire

Hundreds gathered outside a morgue in western Hanoi Wednesday, waiting to hear if their families and friends were victims of a devastating apartment fire...

AFPSeptember 13, 2023

Firefighters work to put out a fire and rescue people at an apartment block in Hanoi

World

Dozens dead in Hanoi apartment fire

Dozens of people died in a fire at an apartment block in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, state media said Wednesday, with witnesses reporting screams from...

AFPSeptember 13, 2023