Britain cracks down on illegal nail-salon workers in fight against modern slavery
British immigration officers have raided nearly 300 nail salons and arrested 97 people, mostly from Vietnam, for suspected immigration offences as part of a drive to tackle modern slavery, the…
Indian train derails injuring 61; latest crash to rise concern
NEW DELHI – A train has derailed in India injuring 61 people, police and rail officials said, the third significant accident in recent months that have raised concern about the…
Kerry to lay out vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace
WASHINGTON – United States Secretary of State John Kerry will lay out his vision for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a speech on Wednesday, days after the United States cleared…
Wing flap fault main theory behind Black Sea Russian jet crash
MOSCOW – Russian investigators looking into the crash of a military plane that crashed, killing all 92 on board, believe a fault with its wing flaps was the reason it…
Carrie Fisher, ‘Star Wars’ Princess Leia, dies at 60
LOS ANGELES – Carrie Fisher, who rose to fame as Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” films and later endured drug addiction before going on to tell her story as…
In Pearl Harbor visit, Abe pledges Japan will never wage war again
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined United States President Barack Obama for a symbolic joint visit to Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, commemorating World War Two dead…
Vietnam suffers first slowdown in economic growth for 4 years
Vietnam’s economy has expanded an estimated 6.21 percent this year, slightly behind 2015 and marking the first slowdown in four years, but a fourth-quarter surge to 6.68 percent was the…
Lunar New Year fireworks banned in Vietnam
Vietnam is scrapping Lunar New Year fireworks, after the government told cities to pledge the money to the city’s poor instead. According to the state run newspaper Tuoi Tre news,…
Court interpreter pay dispute left Vietnamese clients waiting in custody
MELBOURNE – A year-long pay dispute between Melbourne’s Magistrates Court and Vietnamese language interpreters has finally been resolved. The dispute arose when the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court changed hiring practices that…
Vietnam sentences 18 bank officials up to 30 years in prison
An appeals court in Hanoi has sentenced 18 former officials of the state-owned Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development to prison, with terms ranging from four to 30 years,…
