A 5.8-kilogram newborn baby has just been born by cesarean delivery at Hung Vuong Hospital in HCMC, announced the hospital on February 28.

There are many unusual markets in Vietnam, including those that sell only gemstones, and one where buyers and sellers make transactions with leaves.

The 30-year-old was seen on the white horse riding around HCM City’s centre on Tuesday while wearing a yellow coat and a helmet of a ride-hailing firm Be.

With dexterous hands, many people can ‘make’ fruit displayed on Tet days and turn them into artistic works. The special job can bring a high income on the days just before Tet.

The 34-year-old mother can now hold her baby in her arms after four miscarriages. The baby boy was born in the 25th week of pregnancy, weighing only 0.5 kilograms.

The National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology on January 3 announced that its doctors had successfully nurtured a 500-gram premature baby weighing only 500 grams at 25 weeks gestation.

A man in a Southern province died after a python constricted him to death, according to local officials.

Held twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, a piano class in Thu Duc district in HCM City has given free lessions for dozens of elderly students over the past 5 years.

Wealthy people in Vietnam are willing to spend money for their villas, ornamental plants and cars.

VietNamNet sums up the “odd news” in Vietnam last week.

For the past four years, a special English class has been held in Hai Ba Trung District in Hanoi for students 60 to 90 years old.

Images of a rare natural phenomenon have been recorded at Ba Den Mountain in the south-western province of Tay Ninh, with its peak surrounded by white clouds which look like unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

The Vietnam - Sweden Hospital Uong Bi in the Northern Province of Quang Ninh said that surgeons of this hospital had just performed an operation on a pregnant woman with two uteruses with one child having developed in each uterus.

While fishing in the waters of Quang Tri, fishermen from Thua Thien - Hue found a block of white material thought to be ambergris, worth tens of thousands of USD.

The Central General Hospital in Quang Nam has performed caesarean sections on a pregnant woman with twins, including one still in the amniotic sac, a condition that rarely occurred.

Breeding 1,500 breeding ri voi snakes (Subsessor bocourti), a farmer in Tien Giang province now earns nearly US$30,000 a year.

If age and experience is anything to go by, these 'pupils' in Hanoi really are top of the class. Once a week the elderly learners meet up to have English lessons. The silver-haired 'students' are living proof that it is never too old to learn.

By raising eels in mud-free tanks and exposing them to music every day, a farmer in Nghe An Province earn tens of thousands of USD a year.

Today, Gia Dinh People's Hospital announced that surgeons just successfully performed an operation to remove a tumor weighing about 22kg for an 18-year-old female patient.

Many people in the northern central province of Ha Tinh’s Duc Tho District are flocking to hunt sandworms.