KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 21 money laundering charges will be laid against former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak over a $US681 million (some $A936 million) dollar transfer into his…
CONWAY – US President Donald Trump has warned South Carolina “water is coming your way” in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, as the death toll from the massive storm rose…
SEOUL – North Korea says it will permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, in a new gesture by leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering talks…
MALE/COLOMBO – More than a quarter of a million people will vote on Sunday for the next leader of the tropical Maldives in an election criticised internationally for a lack…
HAWTHORNE – SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company, has named its first private passenger as Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo. A…
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has greeted Moon Jae-in with hugs and smiles as the South Korean president arrived in Pyongyang for a third summit between the…
SYDNEY – Australian general insurance companies have breached their own self-imposed regulations on more than 31,000 occasions without penalties, a powerful misconduct inquiry has heard amid mounting calls for tougher…
SYDNEY – Australia plans to increase the maximum jail term to 15 years for anyone convicted of contaminating foodstuffs, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as a scare over needles found…
MELBOURNE – Two people died, a dozen more were hospitalised and hundreds others sought medical assistance after suspected drug overdoses at a music festival in Sydney, the police said. A…
MELBOURNE – The state of Queensland has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for sabotaging strawberries with sewing needles. The police have said that…
SYDNEY – Dry weather across Australia‘s east coast will linger until 2019, the country’s meteorological bureau says, extending drought conditions that have hit rural production and threatened the broader economy. Australia‘s…
MELBOURNE – The Herald Sun has defended its cartoonist after publishing a caricature of Serena Williams having a temper tantrum at the US Open tennis tournament, which civil rights leaders,…
HANOI – Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang, one of the country’s top three leaders but with mostly ceremonial duties, has died after an illness, state television and radio announced. Quang,…
A Vietnamese court has sentenced two Vietnamese-Americans to 14 years in prison for “attempting to overthrow the state”, a court official told Reuters. James Nguyen and Angel Phan were convicted, along…
HANOI – Vietnam has asked Facebook to open a local office as the Communist-ruled country increases pressure on global technology firms to abide by a controversial cybersecurity law. Critics of…
HANOI – A court in central Vietnam has jailed an activist for 12 years, on an accusation of trying to overthrow the state, his lawyer said, days after two rights campaigners were…
HANOI – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says in hindsight her government could have handled the situation in Rakhine state better. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Rakhine after government…
HANOI – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that countries outside Indochina are too critical of politics in the region and that it should be left to solve its…
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…
WASHINGTON – The United States said on Friday it was deeply concerned by the sentencing of a Vietnamese dissident to 20 years in prison this week, calling a trend of…
WASHINGTON – The US State Department has called on Vietnam to release all “prisoners of conscience” immediately, one day after a Vietnamese court conducted a one-day trial of an activist…
MORROW — Ethan Pham has become the first Vietnamese-American judge in Morrow, a city with Georgia’s largest Vietnamese population. 35-year-old Ethan Pham was sworn in on Tuesday after he was…
Dear Music Lovers and Friends, I would like to warmly invite you to my CD Launch Concert: ‘Fantasies on Moonlight’. The concert is on Sunday 19th of August at 2:30pm…