Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa have shot dead a civil society activist and wounded several other people during church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, witnesses…
Cambodia’s ruling party says it has won every seat up for election on the Senate in a ballot that was held after thousands of opposition lawmakers and local council leaders…
South Korea has brought the curtain down on its “Peace Games”, with winter sports athletes dancing and singing together at a vibrant closing ceremony, though there was little warmth between dignitaries…
US President Donald Trump has welcomed Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to the White House, and praised the strength of US-Australia ties. “The relationship we have with Australia is a…
The official North Korea is sending to South Korea’s Winter Olympics closing ceremony, Kim Yong Chol, is the “right person” for inter-Korean and denuclearisation talks, the South’s Yonhap news agency…
The armed sheriff’s deputy assigned to the US high school in Florida where 17 people were shot dead has resigned rather than face suspension after an internal investigation showed he failed…
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declined to offer US President Donald Trump any advice on gun control days after the latest mass shooting at a US school, despite Australia‘s…
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has said he will resign as leader of his party and will move to the backbench after weeks of pressure over an extra-marital affair…
When Luke Terry decided to set up a business, hiring unemployed people with mental illnesses to do laundry for hotels and hospitals in eastern Australia, his friends laughed. “I’d never really…
Australia‘s embattled deputy prime minister, under pressure over an extramarital affair, has faced a call to step down as leader of his party, the first such call from a member…
China’s rising power and a resurgent trans-Pacific trade pact will be at the top of the agenda when Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and US President Donald Trump meet in Washington…
Australia says it will be open to the idea of Britain joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership regional trade group after it leaves the European Union. But Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, visiting Britain…
A Formula One race in Vietnam could be on the calendar by 2020, according to the sport’s former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone. “I think you’re going to get a race…
US President Donald Trump has spoken with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, discussing the regional security situation, growing bilateral defense ties and trade, the White House said in a statement. The…
A Vietnamese property tycoon who was sent home from Singapore to face charges of spilling official secrets will also be prosecuted for abusing power while on official duties, Vietnam’s police…
A court in central Vietnam has jailed a prominent environmental blogger for 14 years for abusing his democratic freedom and opposing officials on duty, his lawyer said. Vietnamese activist Hoang…
A high-profile former Vietnamese oil executive has been sentenced to life in jail for embezzlement, two weeks after was also imprisoned for life on similar charges in a separate case,…
Vietnam has listed a US-based group still loyal to the now defunct state of South Vietnam as a terrorist organisation, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said. The California-based Provisional…
Hong-Anh Nguyen is one of Melbourne’s most popular Vietnamese singer-songwriters. Performing in Vietnamese and English, Hong-Anh, accompanied by Binh Cadillac on guitar and keyboard, and singers Duong Hoa and Duy…
Phi and Me is a second intergeneration Vietnamese refugee story about a Vietnamese refugee mum Kim Huong and her daughter Phi Nguyen. Mum wants Phi to be a doctor, but…
Vietnam has jailed four men for flying the flag of the US-backed Republic of Vietnam, the former state that spanned the southern half of the country until it was reunified…
New South Wales police are investigating an incident in which a man was shot and killed in a ‘targeted attack’ in Sydney’s west. Vietnamese-born lawyer Ho Ledinh, 65, was shot…
As the Year of the Rooster draws close to the end of the lunar-solar calendar, the Vietnamese community is readying to welcome 2018 as the Year of the Dog. This…
Vietnam has challenged US anti-dumping measures against Vietnam’s exports of fish fillets, a filing published by the World Trade Organisation shows. Vietnam says Washington has broken WTO rules in the…
Members of a gang who forced Vietnamese girls and women into slavery in nail bars in Britain have been jailed for a total of nine years in what police believe…
Balwyn High School student Anne Pham is one of this year’s students who scored a perfect 99.95 ATAR score. The 17-year-old is one of the recipients of the University of…
The US Commerce Department has slapped steep import duties on steel products from Vietnam that originated in China after finding they evaded US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy orders. The decision marked…