IBM apologises for Australian e-census bungle, setting off blame game
SYDNEY – International Business Machines Corp says it plans to compensate the Australian government for a “malicious” cyber-attack that shut down a national census, but blamed two domestic internet providers for…
Vietnamese newspaper apologises for fish sauce scare
A Vietnamese newspaper has apologised to its readers for a series of articles now proven to have spread false public concern on the safety of fish sauce. Thanh Nien newspaper…
Vietnamese police hunt for 230 drug addicts after mass breakout
More than 200 drug addicts are on the run after a mass escape from a rehabilitation centre in Vietnam’s south east region ion Sunday night. Ho Van Loc, deputy director…
Kim Kardashian drops lawsuit over claims she faked Paris robbery
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has dropped a US defamation lawsuit against a website for claiming she had staged an armed robbery in Paris. Kardashian withdrew the lawsuit filed this…
Australia’s richest woman defends bid for cattle empire
Australia‘s richest woman Gina Rinehart has defended her joint bid with China’s Shanghai CRED Real Estate for the nation’s biggest cattle empire, after it was trumped by a rival all-Australian syndicate.…
Vietnam seizes 66 turtles smuggled from Cambodia
Officials in south-western Vietnam say they have seized 66 wild turtles and tortoises from a passenger bus travelling from Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City. Forest…
Prominent anti-Vietnam War activist Tom Hayden dead at 76 – reports
Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist and one of the era’s most prominent, counter-culture radicals who went on to serve in the California state assembly and senate, has died aged…
Three Chinese warships make call in Vietnam
Three Chinese warships along with hundreds of military personnel have arrived in central Vietnam to promote military ties between the two sides. The Chinese naval fleet arrived in the newly…
Vietnamese ‘Napalm girl’ expresses sadness after Facebook banned iconic photo in Sept.
The Vietnamese woman, who appeared in an iconic 1972 photo as a naked 9-year-old girl running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War, has spoken out after Facebook temporarily…
Over 500 drug addicts escape rehab centre in Vietnam
Local media reports more than 500 inmates at a rehabilitation centre in the southern province of Dong Nai, broke out of the facility on Sunday night. The break-out occurred at…
