WASHINGTON – The United States is considering adding Venezuela to its list of state sponsors of terrorism but no final decision has been made, a person familiar with the deliberations…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian anti-graft authorities have reopened investigations into a contentious submarine deal 16 years ago involving former prime minister Najib Razak, the latest corruption probe facing the embattled…
PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says there will never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a…
HONG KONG – Three leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 civil disobedience “Occupy” movement have pleaded not guilty to public nuisance charges at a packed court in the Chinese-ruled city where…
PORT MORESBY – Asia-Pacific leaders have failed to agree on a communique at a summit in Papua New Guinea for the first time in their history as deep divisions between…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May says toppling her will risk delaying Brexit and she will not let talk of a leadership challenge distract her from a critical week…
SYDNEY – Police say they have arrested three men who were allegedly preparing to attack the public in Melbourne, less than two weeks after a man was killed in Australia’s…
SYDNEY – Australia’s Commonwealth Bank chief executive has told a banking misconduct inquiry that his predecessor had told him to curb his “sense of justice” when he suggested halting sales…
Australia’s trade minister said translation issues were behind the delay of a billion-dollar free trade agreement with Indonesia, downplaying a friction between the countries over Australia’s possible Jerusalem embassy. “There…
A 42-year-old man has died of a heart attack after apparently being stung by a stingray while swimming off the Tasmania coast, police said. Attempts to resuscitate the man, who…
SYDNEY – Australia‘s treasurer has said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad had a history of anti-Jewish statements, in an escalating war of words over the possibility Australia might move its…
MELBOURNE – The first of a group of nine Australians convicted for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia in 2005 will be released from a Bali jail later this…
HANOI – Police in Vietnam have arrested two more officials of a state-run mobile carrier, the latest sweep in the Communist-ruled nation’s graft crackdown that has already engulfed hundreds of…
HANOI – Vietnam‘s lawmaking body, the National Assembly, has unanimously ratified a landmark 11-country deal that will slash tariffs across much of the Asia-Pacific. One of the region’s fastest growing…
HANOI – Police in Vietnam have arrested a former deputy labour minister on allegations of economic mismanagement, as the communist-led government presses on with a crackdown on corruption. Le Bach Hong,…
HANOI – Vietnam’s new carrier Bamboo Airways expects to finally get an aviation licence next week and start flying within weeks, the chairman of its parent firm said. The airline…
HANOI – Vietnam has released a long-waited draft decree on guidelines to implement a cybersecurity law that global technology companies and rights groups have said could undermine development and stifle…
HANOI – In a rare ideological denunciation of one of its members, Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party has publicly criticised a prominent and outspoken academic for publishing translations of books it…
BRATISLAVA – Slovakia has threatened to freeze relations with Vietnam over the case of a Vietnamese businessman who Germany says was kidnapped by Vietnamese agents and smuggled back home through…
A Vietnamese dissident known as “Mother Mushroom” went on hunger strike three times during her imprisonment before Hanoi released her, she said on Friday after arriving in the United States.…
Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known as “Mother Mushroom”, was released from prison on Wednesday and left Vietnam on a flight to the United States, sources with direct knowledge of…
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia has agreed to resume a search effort with the United States for the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the Foreign Ministry said, after…
GLASGOW – After decades spent battling an influx of heroin, some of Scotland’s top cops are now striving to get to grips with another troubling import – modern-day slaves from…
Sport Australia has launched an exciting campaign ‘Move It AUS’, encouraging Australians of all backgrounds, ages and abilities to become physically active and move more often…
Beijing has expressed anger after a British Royal Navy warship sailed close to islands claimed by China in the South China Sea late last month, saying Britain was engaged in…
HANOI – On the shores of a still and peaceful lake on the edge of downtown Hanoi, the inscription on a faded monument stands as a reminder of a violent…
HANOI – A Vietnamese court has found two Vietnamese-Americans guilty of terrorism and sentenced them to 14 years in prison for masterminding bomb plots earlier this year, a court official told…