Vietnam’s three top leaders have quit to make way for younger politicians in a long-awaited shuffle of the communist nation’s government, an official said today.

Vietnam celebrated the communist victory over a US-backed government today, parading troops on the same boulevard used by tanks on their way to smashing the Presidential Palace of South Vietnam 30 years ago.

VIETNAM, where thousands of bears are kept captive to extract their bile for traditional medicine, is to speed up plans to phase out the trade.

Vietnam is bracing itself for typhoon Lingling by evacuating the elderly and children from the most vulnerable areas along its central coastline.