GENEVA – The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported right abuses during Belarus’s crackdown on protests, angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the…
LONDON – Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has quit her role as Britain’s special envoy on media freedom in protest at the country’s intention to breach international law over Brexit-related…
TAIPEI/BEIJING – Taiwan scrambled fighter jets on Friday as 18 Chinese aircraft buzzed the island, crossing the sensitive midline of the Taiwan Strait, in response to a senior US official…
BANGKOK – Thai protest leaders say they expect the biggest anti-government demonstration in years this weekend and have vowed to reiterate their calls for reforms of the monarchy despite official…
BRUSSELS – Leaders of Europe’s coronavirus-stricken travel and tourism industries have appealed to the EU’s chief executive to press governments to end quarantine requirements and instead embrace coordinated restrictions and…
TOKYO – New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga‘s government was backed by at least two-thirds of respondents in domestic polls taken in the early days of his administration. The Kyodo…
MELBOURNE – Australia says it will increase the number of citizens allowed to return home each week to 6,000 as it manages to get new COVID-19 infections under control. Prime…
SYDNEY – Australia will invest $1.9 billion over the next 10 years in nascent renewable energy technology, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says, as Canberra accelerates spending in a bid to…
SYDNEY – Australia has formally named China in a court document as the foreign state under investigation by police in the nation’s first foreign interference investigation. A document lodged in…
SHANGHAI – China’s state media has condemned raids on the homes of Chinese journalists working in Australia, as relations between the two major trading partners become increasingly strained. China News…
MELBOURNE – Protesters in Melbourne have defied a coronavirus lockdown for the second straight weekend, prompting 14 arrests and 51 infringement notices for breaching public health orders, as new infections…
MELBOURNE – Deaths related to the novel coronavirus in Australia reached 803, but new daily infections in the country’s largest hot spot continued to fall. Victoria state, the epicentre of…
HANOI – Tropical storm Noul has made landfall in Vietnam, killing at least one person and triggering heavy rain in the central parts of the country, though authorities later downgraded…
HANOI – Vietnam’s weather agency has said tropical storm Noul was weakening as it approached land, though authorities warned the storm could still dump heavy rains triggering floods and landslides…
HANOI – Vietnam is readying plans to evacuate up to half a million people as it braces for a tropical storm expected to make landfall in the Southeast Asian country’s…
HANOI – A Vietnamese court has sentenced two brothers to death and handed prison terms or probation to 27 others, for their roles in the high-profile killings of three policemen…
HANOI – Vietnam plans to restart international commercial flights to and from six Asian cities from mid-September, state media reports, ending months of coronavirus-related suspension after easing some restrictions on…
WASHINGTON – The US Treasury has determined that Vietnam’s currency was undervalued in 2019 by about 4.7% against the dollar due in part to government intervention, according to a new…
LONDON – A 40-year-old Irish haulier has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London…
AMSTERDAM – Almost all the Vietnamese children who arrived in Dutch asylum centres in recent years disappeared and were probably trafficked, the Dutch government advisor on human trafficking has said. Eighty…
PRAGUE – Vietnam has denounced Slovakia’s expulsion of one of its diplomats in a row over the abduction of a disgraced Vietnamese businessman via Slovakia in 2017, saying it was…
DUBLIN – An Irish court has approved the extradition of one of the two Northern Irish men charged with manslaughter over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the…
SCHOLARSHIP SELECTION CRITERIA Avepa will award scholarships to the Australian students of Vietnamese origin (according to the available funds) who can best demonstrate they meet the following criteria: They have…
LONDON – A British truck driver charged with the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead in a truck near London last month has pleaded guilty to plotting to assist…
HANOI – The United States announced on Wednesday it will provide Vietnam with another coast guard cutter for its growing fleet of ships, boosting Hanoi’s ability to patrol the South…
HANOI – Tradition in Vietnam dictates that the dead should be buried within three days, but Nguyen Dinh Gia is still waiting for his son’s body to come home. “We…
HANOI – A court in Vietnam has sentenced a 70-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “terrorism”, a lawyer who attended the trial told…