17 Vietnamese teens missing in Australia

Seventeen Vietnamese children, believed to be victims of human trafficking, have vanished from Australian immigration facilities since mid-2011.

Music stars to raise fund for children patients

Singers Thanh Lam and Tung Duong will hold a concert on Valentine’s Day in Hanoi to raise fund for cancer children patients

Hyatt Regency Danang Resort donates Tet gifts to the poor

Employees at the Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa have teamed up with the Children of Vietnam to hand Tet gifts worth VND500,000 each to 30 poor families in Danang City’s Hoa Quy Ward.

European weekend market in Hanoi

In Hanoi, the famous Tay (Western) Market lasts three hours from 9 a.m. to noon every Saturday morning. It is located in an alley on To Ngoc Van Street in Tay Ho District. Sellers and buyers are mostly foreigners.

Vice President meets children's fund donors

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan met with donors for the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) in Hanoi on January 14.

VN highly values UNICEF’s assistant

Vietnam highly valued UNICEF’s help in social and cultural development in the country, National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said.

Texas teen mistakenly deported to Colombia comes home

A pregnant 15-year-old Texas girl mistakenly deported to Colombia in a bizarre mix-up returned to the United States and was reunited with her family on Friday.

RoK stars to help VN children

Two stars from the Republic of Korea (RoK), Song Seung-hun and Kim Tae-hee, will come to Vietnam to advertise their newly released TV series entitled My Princess and also raise funds for needy children in the country.

VN thanks SOS Village Int’l for help to child care

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan was full of thanks to the SOS Children’s Village International at a reception for the organisation’s President Helmut Kutin in Hanoi.

Another face of the U.S. recession: homeless children

As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like a new slogan for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.