The animal protection organisation Humane Society International and Vietnam Airlines began a campaign against the consumption of rhino horn consumption by screening a short film,

The Customs Department of the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho has seized 11 rhino horns weighing nearly 30kg at Can Tho International Airport.

At the age of 28, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Thao, a Vietnamese student returning from the UK, had many job choices. Finally, she decided to go to Africa to attend a 2-year training course.

A 22-month old boy in HCM City suffered poisoning after being given rhino horn powder to reduce his fever.

VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam and China are considered the two biggest rhino horn consumers in the world. 

 Swaziland faces a struggle to get permission to sell 330 kg rhino horn for about $10 million from a U.N. conference on the global wildlife trade which began in Johannesburg on Saturday but hopes to stoke a debate about regulated trade.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam has succeeded in cutting the demand for rhino horn, with a reduction of 38 per cent over the past three years,

With its alleged medicinal properties, rhino horn has the allure of a luxury item in Vietnam, a primary market for horn that’s driving the slaughter of rhinos around the globe.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Rhino horn syndicates may have replaced Vietnamese couriers with white South Africans to courier the illegal horns on commercial flights from Africa to Asia because of courier profiling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam is thought to be the biggest rhino horn market in the world, with a rhino horn processing village in the north still operating.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 7kg of suspected rhinoceros horn was discovered in the luggage of three women travelling from Bangkok to Hanoi on November 1.

 Vietnamese demand for rhinoceros horns decreased by 38 per cent within a year after a campaign was launched against the practice.

 A Vietnamese man was caught on March 10 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport while attempting to smuggle five African rhino horns weighing a total of 13.1 kg into the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – One of Viet Nam's leading conservationists has blamed the study "Rhino horn consumers, who are they?" released by wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC and the World Wildlife Fund in late September

VietNamNet Bridge – A long-term public awareness campaign aimed at reducing demand for rhinocerous horn among the community was launched this week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The illegal trading of rare animals online has become more popular in Vietnam and is now out of control.

 VietNamNet Bridge – That is the comment by TRAFFIC on the sale and use of rhino horns in Vietnam today.

Just within one year, Vietnamese competent agencies discovered 17 drug trafficking cases in which 53.16 kilos of drugs, 138 kilos of elephant tusks and 28.61 kilos of rhino horns were carried across the border gates.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Vietnam has denied the information that Vietnam was proposed for being imposed with trade embargo on rhinos.