NEW DELHI/BENGALURU – India has no plans to extend a 21-day lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the government said, as it struggled to keep essential supplies flowing and prevent…
SEOUL – A South Korean tabletop exercise on emergency responses to a fictional mysterious outbreak led directly to tools the country deployed less than a month later to manage the arrival…
BANGKOK – The Thai government has ordered the closing down of more public facilities and businesses in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus, and extended existing closures until…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating at his Downing Street residence but said he would still lead the government’s response to…
LONDON – Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but is in good health and is now self isolating in Scotland with mild symptoms. Charles,…
SEOUL – The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week to shore up its defences against the coronavirus, but strict border controls…
SYDNEY – Australia will spend $130 billion to subsidise the wages of an estimated 6 million people, marking a third tranche of stimulus designed to limit the fallout of the…
MELBOURNE – The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has said its decision to pull out of the 2020 Tokyo Games was unilateral and made without the knowledge of Canada or the…
SYDNEY – Australia‘s two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, will restrict public gatherings to two people from midnight, state leaders said today, as part of a wave of…
SYDNEY – Australia is introducing enforced quarantine by midnight on Saturday for citizens returning home from overseas and will deploy the armed forces to ensure people already subjected to self-isolation…
SYDNEY – Australia is introducing enforced quarantine by midnight on Saturday for citizens returning home from overseas and will deploy armed forces to ensure people already subjected to self-isolation measures are…
SYDNEY – Thousands of Australian healthcare workers will begin a trial to see if a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis can fight off the new coronavirus, researchers said, joining a global test of…
HANOI – Vietnam‘s prime minister has asked major cities to prepare for possible lockdowns to stop the spread of coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country…
HANOI – Vietnam is aiming to keep the number of coronavirus cases in the country under 1,000, the government said, as the number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian…
HANOI – Vietnam’s Finance Ministry says it plans to offer a package of 80 trillion dong ($US3.39 billion) to support businesses hard hit by the coronavirus. The virus has left…
HANOI – Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of people to quarantine camps as waves of overseas citizens return home to escape a coronavirus pandemic spreading in Europe and the…
HANOI – Vietnam‘s health ministry has reported 19 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of cases there to 113. In mid-February, Vietnam said all 16 of its confirmed coronavirus cases had recovered,…
HANOI – Vietnam‘s health ministry has called on all healthcare workers, including medical students and retired doctors and nurses, to join hands in the country’s fight against coronavirus. Vietnam, with 92…
AMSTERDAM – Almost all the Vietnamese children who arrived in Dutch asylum centres in recent years disappeared and were probably trafficked, the Dutch government advisor on human trafficking has said. Eighty…
PRAGUE – Vietnam has denounced Slovakia’s expulsion of one of its diplomats in a row over the abduction of a disgraced Vietnamese businessman via Slovakia in 2017, saying it was…
DUBLIN – An Irish court has approved the extradition of one of the two Northern Irish men charged with manslaughter over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the…
SCHOLARSHIP SELECTION CRITERIA Avepa will award scholarships to the Australian students of Vietnamese origin (according to the available funds) who can best demonstrate they meet the following criteria: They have…
LONDON – A British truck driver charged with the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead in a truck near London last month has pleaded guilty to plotting to assist…
HANOI – The United States announced on Wednesday it will provide Vietnam with another coast guard cutter for its growing fleet of ships, boosting Hanoi’s ability to patrol the South…
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.…