BLANTYRE – Seventeen black rhinos have been released into Malawi’s Liwonde national park after arriving from South Africa as part of conservation efforts aimed at keeping the local population of…
SEOUL – North Korea and the United States could hold another round of working-level talks as soon as mid-November to expedite progress before a year-end deadline set by the North,…
HONG KONG – Hong Kong police have shot and wounded one protester who hospital officials say is in critical condition as the Chinese-ruled territory spirals into rare weekday violence in…
KUALA LUMPUR – A Malaysian court has ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to present his defence against seven counts of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of…
HONG KONG – A student at a Hong Kong university who fell during protests at the weekend has died early this morning, marking the first student death during the anti-government…
ATHENS – Greek police have found 41 migrants, mostly Afghans, hiding in a refrigerated truck at a motorway in northern Greece, officials said. The discovery came 10 days after 39…
MELBOURNE – Australia‘s High Court has agreed to hear a final appeal from Vatican treasurer George Pell over his conviction for sexually assaulting two teenaged choirboys. Pell, who is in jail…
SYDNEY – Authorities have declared a state of emergency across a broad swath of Australia’s east coast, urging residents in high risk areas to evacuate ahead of looming “catastrophic” fire…
MELBOURNE – Australia’s High Court will rule on Wednesday whether to allow a final bid by Vatican former treasurer George Pell to overturn his convictions for sexually abusing two 13-year-old…
SYDNEY – Australia will offer farmers hurt by drought up to $1 billion in cheap loans, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as the government seeks to curb rising discontent from…
SYDNEY, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The heaviest rains in years have fallen across parts of Australia’s east coast, bringing relief to some struggling livestock farmers, although the showers are not…
SYDNEY – Australia and China said they will work together to repair their bilateral relationship, tarnished by allegations that Beijing has committed cyber-attacks and has attempted to interfere in Canberra’s…
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…
BEIJING – China has called on Vietnam not to “complicate” the South China Sea issue, after a senior official in Vietnam said it could explore legal action, among various options, in its territorial…
HANOI/LONDON – The 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck after being smuggled into Britain last month all came from Vietnam and have been formally identified.…
HANOI – Vietnam could explore legal action among various options in its territorial dispute with powerful neighbour China in the South China Sea, a senior government official said. Frictions have…
HANOI – Police in Vietnam have arrested eight people in connection with the discovery of 39 dead people, all believed to be Vietnamese, in a truck near London last month,…
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…
HANOI/LONDON – The 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck after being smuggled into Britain last month all came from Vietnam and have been formally identified.…
CHELMSFORD, England – A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as…
NGHE AN, Vietnam – The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labour export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Thousands…
GRAYS, England – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written in a book of condolences for the 39 people found dead in a truck on Oct. 23 that the whole…
CAN LOC, Vietnam – Police in Vietnam have taken hair and blood samples to get DNA from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in the…
HANOI – In Berlin she posed outside a beer garden, a beaming smile upon her face. In Brussels she sipped sugary bubble tea and posed on the steps of the…
SYDNEY – Australia has refused entry to a Vietnamese woman for failing to declare 10 kg of raw pork, seafood and poultry on arrival in Sydney, its first expulsion under…