KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to defend the democratic island’s sovereignty with the construction of a new fleet of domestically-developed submarines, a key project supported by…
WASHINGTON – The US federal agency that must sign off on the presidential transition has told President-elect Joe Biden that he can formally begin the hand-over process. “I take this…
MANILA – US national security adviser Robert O’Brien has assured the Philippines and Vietnam, countries both locked in maritime rows with China, that Washington has their backs and would fight…
SEOUL – South Korea has grappled with a resurgence in COVID-19 cases today, as a senior official warned it could be the country’s largest wave of infections if the spread is…
Moderna Inc’s experimental vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage trial, the company said, becoming the second US drugmaker to report results that…
WASHINGTON – Four astronauts riding a newly designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX docked with the International Space Station Monday night, in the first crewed mission on a privately built…
SYDNEY – Australia will lift more internal border restrictions in a boost for tourism as new coronavirus infections slow to a trickle, while first vaccines could be available in March,…
MELBOURNE – Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the findings of a report that the country’s special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan were “disturbing…
SYDNEY – Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in Afghanistan, with senior commandos reportedly forcing junior soldiers to kill defenceless captives in order to “blood” them…
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, may agree an historic defence pact that will closely align two key US allies in Asia as…
SYDNEY – South Australia has reported 14 new coronavirus cases, a rapid spike in the state’s first outbreak since April, prompting officials to impose social distancing restrictions. The cluster also…
MELBOURNE – Australia’s triumph in reining in COVID-19 while infections surge in many parts of the world is making the country a “victim of our own success,” as Australians overseas…
HANOI – Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on its platform, a…
HANOI/MANILA – Vietnam is bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country’s central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country’s…
HANOI – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has wound up a visit to Asia in Vietnam after a tour marked by his repeated calls for help for the United…
HANOI – Rescue teams in central Vietnam are searching for bodies following a series of deadly landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave, as yet another powerful storm edged slowly towards a country…
HANOI – Vietnam‘s prime minister has said the country’s exchange rate policy was not aimed at helping its exports and asked that US President Donald Trump have “a more objective assessment…
HANOI – A US citizen sentenced last year to 12 years in a Vietnamese jail for “attempting to overthrow the state”, has been released and returned to his home in…
HANOI – A US citizen sentenced last year to 12 years in a Vietnamese jail for “attempting to overthrow the state”, has been released and returned to his home in…
MELBOURNE – This year, six second generation Vietnamese-Australian candidates are hoping to make a difference in their local government elections. TiVi Tuan-san spoke to the young hopefuls via email and…
LONDON – Two members of an alleged people-smuggling gang have stood trial accused of being responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found suffocated in a…
LONDON – A 40-year-old Irish haulier has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and boys found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck near London…
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…