Court sentences four Catholic students

Three receive more than three-year prison terms, while fourth gets suspended sentence for alleged anti-government activities

Authorities address childbirth deaths

Health Ministry says hospital staff must improve

A good deal for ethnic groups from fair trade scheme

Nuns ease ethnic trade burdens in Vietnam

Catholic students to stand trial

Four stand accused of spreading anti-government propaganda

Officials yet to allow visit to jailed blogger

Sources say Redemptorist priests have petitioned for access to Marie Ta Phong Tan, who has staged a month-long hunger strike

A place where needy children find a family

SOS Children's Village offers the comforts of home

Petitions urge probe in journalist attacks

State-run radio official, other groups file complaints over beating of two reporters covering a land dispute

Security officials arrest Marian devotees

More than 60 Marian devotees from several ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands have been arrested for alleged anti-government activities, according to reports. State-run media reported yesterday that security forces raided three villages in Mang

Communist Party addresses land law

Party general secretary seeks answers to high numbers of land complaints

Journalist released from prison

Says harsh treatment requires him to seek medical attention for heart, skin ailments

Resettlement means misery and debt for boat people

River beautification scheme leaves boat people vulnerable

Rescue workers find bodies

A fifth body was pulled today from the debris of the Phan Me coal mine dump in Thai Nguyen province, rescue workers said. A landslide of some 300,000cu m of rock and earth destroyed 10 houses and crops over 10 hectares on April 15. Yesterday rescue