SYDNEY – The Australian state of Victoria, the epicentre of COVID-19 infections, says it has gone 48 hours without detecting any new cases for the first time in more than…
MELBOURNE – Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia will deny entry to all foreign nationals travelling from mainland China from Saturday due to the increasing threat from the coronavirus epimedic.…
MELBOURNE – Australia has a fresh opportunity to supply the United States with critical minerals after recent changes to US regulation aimed at cutting its dependence on China, an Australian…
UNITED NATIONS – The United States will co-host an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on China’s treatment of Muslim minorities including ethnic Uighurs, the US…
PARIS – France and Germany have announced a 65 million euro (A$104 million) contract financed equally by both countries over two years as the first act of the joint program…
NILAI – Malaysia has made its largest ever seizure of crystal methamphetamine, officials said, finding nearly 1.2 tonnes of the drug disguised as tea in a shipment from Myanmar, and…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…