South Korean President Moon Jae-in will greet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday as the latter crosses a military demarcation line to enter the South for the first…
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the United States to reject narrow nationalism and engage the world, telling US lawmakers that modern economic and security challenges must be a shared…
A motion by Canada’s unelected Senate calling for an end to Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea is irresponsible and “stirs up troubles”, a Chinese embassy spokesman says.…
Nigeria’s army says it wants to turn the Sambisa forest into a tourist destination. The plan, however, has a catch: the area is home to a vicious insurgency. At least…
Singapore has mourned the death of the first polar bear born and bred in the tropical island city, put down by wildlife authorities after a five-year battle with health difficulties…
A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly 1.6-km stretch of sidewalk…
Thousands of people have attended dawn war memorial services across Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Britain, France and in Thailand to commemorate ANZAC Day, the Gallipoli landings and the centenary of the…
Australia is confident of not only meeting, but beating, its carbon emissions targets agreed to under the Paris climate agreement, the country’s environment minister said. Australia has committed to reducing…
The Australian government has come under fresh pressure over its reluctance to hold a judicial inquiry into the banking sector which has exposed widespread misconduct and regulatory shortcomings. Minister for Finance…
An Australian inquiry into financial sector misconduct has claimed its first scalp as the chief executive of the country’s largest wealth manager stepped down over revelations of board-level deception and…
Australian warships were challenged by the Chinese military in the disputed South China Sea earlier this month, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reports, citing Australian defence officials. The Australian Defence Department…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has ordered the investigation into a 71-year-old Australian nun for “disorderly conduct”, justifying it as a legal move against “undesirable” foreigners. Sister Patricia Fox, a…
A Vietnamese man has appeared in a German court, accused of helping to kidnap a former oil executive in Berlin last year on behalf of Vietnam’s secret services and smuggle…
Police in Vietnam have arrested a former senior police official and a former head of the central city of Danang, and placed four others under house arrest as the communist-led…
The United States is seeking to send thousands of immigrants from Vietnam back to the communist-ruled country despite a bilateral agreement that should protect most from deportation, according to Washington’s former…
Courts in Vietnam have handed prison sentences to two activists, as the communist-ruled government widens a crackdown on dissent. A court in the northcentral province of Nghe An sentenced Nguyen…
Vietnam wants to give its coast guard more flexibility to open fire at sea, amid tension in the busy South China Sea waterway, a draft law released on Wednesday showed.…
Vietnam has urged greater vigilance against cryptocurrency transactions and investments, as officials in its economic hub asked police to investigate what could prove to be the country’s largest cryptocurrency fraud.…
A Vietnamese man has appeared in a German court, accused of helping to kidnap a former oil executive in Berlin last year on behalf of Vietnam’s secret services and smuggle…
It wasn’t until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to…
The United States is seeking to send thousands of immigrants from Vietnam back to the communist-ruled country despite a bilateral agreement that should protect most from deportation, according to Washington’s former…
The United States has given six patrol boats to the Vietnamese Coast Guard, the US embassy in Hanoi said, amid warming ties between the former foes. The vessels are in…
Two men who tried to smuggle a Vietnamese migrant into the United Kingdom from France by hiding him behind boxes of wine and beer have been jailed, the Home Office…
A woman accused of poisoning the North Korean leader’s half-brother played a prank on a Vietnamese government official in Hanoi less than two weeks before the sensational killing, her lawyer has…
It took Pham Thi Thuan a while before she could muster the courage to fetch water from across the ditch where 170 of her neighbours, most of them women and…
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…