YANCHENG, China – An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 62 people, state media said late on Friday, with 34 people critically injured and 28 missing,…
BRUSSELS – British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun the mammoth struggle of persuading a deeply divided parliament to back her Brexit deal after an EU summit granted her more…
ALGIERS – Hundreds of thousands of Algerians have rallied to demand the immediate resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who is fighting for his political survival in the face of unrelenting…
UTRECHT, Netherlands – Several thousand people carrying red and white flowers, the colours of the flag of Utrecht, have walked in quiet solidarity to honour the victims of a shooting…
CHRISTCHURCH – New Zealanders has marked one week since a mass shooting killed 50 Muslim worshippers in the South Island city of Christchurch, holding nationwide prayers and wearing headscarves to…
LONDON – Bring a hankie to the new movie version of Disney’s flying elephant tale “Dumbo” because it may be a little dark for some people. The movie, a live-action…
SYDNEY – Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party faces a tight election contest in Australia‘s largest state, polls suggest, as a strong economy and a troubled opposition may not surmount…
MELBOURNE – Australia‘s prime minister Scott Morrison has described social media users who posted abusive comments beneath a photograph of Australian Rules player Tayla Harris as “cowardly grubs”. Harris, who plays for…
SYDNEY – Australia has cut its annual intake of immigrants by nearly 15 percent, and barred some new arrivals from living in its largest cities for three years, in a bid…
Kenneth To, a record-breaking Hong Kong-Australian swimmer who had his sights on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has died suddenly after a training session in the United States, officials said. He…
MELBOURNE – A grandmother of the Australian man suspected of killing 50 people in two New Zealand mosques said she was “just devastated” for the dead and injured. Speaking publicly for…
SYDNEY/WELLINGTON – Australian police have searched two homes in towns on the New South Wales (NSW) mid-north coast linked to the investigation into Friday’s mass shootings at mosques in the…
HANOI – A court in Vietnam jailed two former officials of a Vietnam-Russia oil joint venture, after convicting them of abusing their power to appropriate property, state media said. Vietnam…
HANOI – Vietnam has lodged an official protest with China following the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel in the disputed South China Sea, Vietnam said. Vietnam and China have…
HANOI – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has advised Vietnam to declare a rapidly spreading outbreak of African Swine Fever as a national emergency. The virus was…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s attorney-general has rejected Vietnam‘s request to free a woman accused of the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, and a court…
HANOI – Vietnam has called on Malaysia to free a Vietnamese woman accused of the 2017 VX poison murder of the North Korean leader’s half-brother, a day after a Malaysian court…
HANOI – Vietnam is seeking clarification of how a fishing boat came to sink this week in the contested South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, days after…
TOKYO – When a young Vietnamese woman found out late last year that she was pregnant after arriving in Japan on a “technical trainee” visa, she was given a stark…
Diana Nguyen presents, as a part of the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Dirty Diana Directed by Louise Jog Gorham 27 March – 21 April, 2019 Storyville Melbourne – 185…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s attorney-general has rejected Vietnam‘s request to free a woman accused of the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, and a court…
HANOI – Vietnam has called on Malaysia to free a Vietnamese woman accused of the 2017 VX poison murder of the North Korean leader’s half-brother, a day after a Malaysian court…
LONDON – Thousands of children trafficked to Britain from Vietnam are being abused and exploited while travelling through Europe as governments pass the buck on their protection amid growing anti-immigration…
Nguyen Tran Huyen Dieu (Stage name: Jillian Nguyen) is starting to make a big name for herself in the film industry. The young Vietnamese-Australian actress from Melbourne recently finished filming…
HANOI – US President Donald Trump has used a meeting with Vietnamese officials to pitch arms exports from the United States, ahead of a meeting with North Korean leader Kim…
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says he will use a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart to discuss resetting ties between the two countries after past differences over the kidnapping…
WASHINGTON/HANOI – Vietnamese airlines will be able to fly to the United States and codeshare with American carriers after the US Federal Aviation Administration declared the Southeast Asian country complies with…