SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a large newly built submarine, state news agency KCNA reported, potentially signalling continued development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM)…
MANAGUA – Iran’s foreign minister has warned the West against “starting a conflict,” saying it was not seeking confrontation after its military seized the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the…
SRIHARIKOTA/BENGALURU, India – India has launched a rocket into space in an attempt to safely land a rover on the moon, its most ambitious mission yet in the effort to…
BEIJING – Remarks by US officials on China’s role in the South China Sea are slanderous, its foreign ministry said, after the United States voiced concern over reports of Chinese…
KYOTO, Japan – A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media said after…
NEW YORK – FBI documents unsealed on Thursday suggest that Donald Trump was actively involved in engineering a hush-money payment shortly before the 2016 election to a porn actress who…
MELBOURNE – A French television reporter and his crew have been arrested while filming protesters blockading a coal port in Australia’s northeastern state of Queensland. Reporter Hugo Clément said he…
SYDNEY – Australia and Papua New Guinea have said their leaders will meet annually in a bid to foster closer ties, which Canberra believes is important in its bid to…
MELBOURNE – China has moved Australian writer Yang Hengjun to a detention centre in the capital, Beijing, Australia’s foreign ministry said, just as a measure to detain him without legal…
SYDNEY – An Australian celebrity chef said he had underpaid hundreds of his restaurant employees by nearly $8 million over six years. George Calombaris – who shot to worldwide fame…
SYDNEY – Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will make a state visit to Australia, its government said, as it seeks to cement its position with Pacific island’s new…
SYDNEY – Australia needs more prayer, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a devout Christian, has said, vowing that his administration would do whatever needed to be done by way of legislation…
HANOI – Vietnam on Friday accused a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts of violating its sovereignty and demanded that China remove the ships from Vietnamese waters. Vietnam and…
HANOI – A former head of Vietnam‘s second largest listed bank, the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV), has died in detention, state media and…
WASHINGTON – The US Commerce Department says it will impose duties of up to 456% on certain steel produced in South Korea or Taiwan that are then shipped to Vietnam…
HANOI – Vietnam says it has had initial success in creating a vaccine to fight African swine fever, which has infected farms throughout the Southeast Asian country and prompted the…
Hanoi – The European Union has signed a landmark free trade deal with Vietnam, the first of its kind with a developing country in Asia, paving the way for tariff…
HANOI – A court in Vietnam has jailed for eight years a man who formerly worked as a lawyer, on a charge of attempting to overthrow the state, just days…
HANOI – A court in Vietnam has jailed for eight years a man who formerly worked as a lawyer, on a charge of attempting to overthrow the state, just days…
CHNOK TRU, Cambodia – Troung Van Long is Vietnamese in name only. He was born in Cambodia and has lived there for decades, including many years in a floating house…
HANOI – A court in Vietnam has sentenced a US citizen to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “attempting to overthrow the state” in a trial that…
HANOI – Vietnam has asked companies not to advertise on videos hosted by Google’s YouTube that contain “anti-state propaganda,” state media said, as the Southeast Asian country ramps up pressure…
BRUSSELS – The European Union has called for the immediate release of a Vietnamese Facebook user sentenced to six years in prison for posts he made on the social media…
HANOI – Facebook increased the amount of content it restricted access to in Vietnam by over 500% in the last half of 2018, the US social media giant said in…
HANOI – Vietnam is seeking to export avocados to the United States, the Southeast Asian country said, after US President Donald Trump’s threat to shut the US-Mexico border raised fears American consumers…
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will expand the number of countries it monitors for currency manipulation in an upcoming report expected this month, and Vietnam may be named a currency manipulator,…
KUALA LUMPUR – A Vietnamese woman who spent more than two years in a Malaysian prison on suspicion of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been…