WELLINGTON – New Zealand police have charged the man accused of murder in shootings at two Christchurch mosques in March with engaging in a terrorist act, they said. In an…
TEGUCIGALPA – Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatán island, a tourist destination on the…
KHARTOUM – The deputy leader of Sudan’s military council has voiced his enthusiasm for democratic elections in front of an audience of tribal leaders and senior diplomats, while seeking to…
WINDSOR, England – New father Britain’s Prince Harry has returned to the Windsor Castle chapel where he married Meghan Markle a year ago this weekend, attending the wedding of relative…
Reality television star Kim Kardashian has announced that she has named her fourth child, a boy born last week via a surrogate, Psalm West. Kardashian wrote “Psalm West” in a…
LOS ANGELES – Sheldon and Amy won their Nobel Prize and the elevator was finally fixed in a sentimental finale to television comedy series “The Big Bang Theory” that left…
SYDNEY – Australia’s conservative coalition is scrambling to deliver on a major election campaign pledge only days after being re-elected, immediate tax breaks for tens of millions of voters which…
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY – Australia’s conservative government has celebrated its surprise election victory that defied years of unfavourable opinion polls, with US and Israeli leaders welcoming Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s return to…
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government had delivered a miracle result in Saturday’s election where it unexpectedly looks set to retain office, saying the victory was…
SYDNEY – Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten has said that the Labor Party would not be able to form government and he had called conservative Prime Minister Scott Morrison to…
SYDNEY – Australia’s Liberal-led conservative government is in position to win the national election with more than half the votes counted, media projected, though it is unclear whether it can…
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is on course for defeat at this weekend’s national election, a political poll shows, as campaigning ahead of the ballot was overshadowed by the…
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…
HANOI – Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Trong, the architect of the Southeast Asian country’s corruption crackdown, has made his first appearance in state media since falling ill a month ago. Trong,…
HANOI – Vietnam has stepped up its imprisonment of political activists, Amnesty International said in a report today, intensifying a crackdown that has seen the number of prisoners of conscience…
HANOI – Vietnam has culled more than 1.2 million farmed pigs infected with African swine fever, the government said, as the virus continues to spread rapidly in the Southeast Asian country. Pork…
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…
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…
KUALA LUMPUR – A Vietnamese woman who had been accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader will be freed from a Malaysian prison on May 3, her lawyer…
CHICAGO/HANOI – US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has criticised Vietnam’s move to ban imports of glyphosate-based herbicides, saying the decision would have “devastating impacts on global agricultural production.” Vietnam’s…
KUALA LUMPUR – European and US fashion brands sourcing from Vietnam must stop their “harsh” tactics that push down workers’ wages and trap millions in poverty, labour rights campaigners said.…
Criminal cartel charges have been laid against a money transfer business and five individuals for allegedly fixing the Australian dollar / Vietnamese dong exchange rate and fees they charged their…
SINGAPORE – Singapore has seized 12.9 tonnes of pangolin scales found in a shipping container destined for Vietnam, the biggest seizure of its kind globally in five years, authorities said.…
HANOI – The United States has delivered six patrol boats worth $US12 million to Vietnam‘s Coast Guard, the US embassy in Hanoi said, amid warming ties between the former foes. The…