Vienna Zoo twin panda cubs named Fu Feng and Fu Ban at ceremony
Twin panda cubs born at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo last summer were officially named Fu Feng and Fu Ban at a ceremony on Wednesday – although they were still too small…
UN human rights body calls on Vietnam to free dissidents
The United Nations human rights watchdog has called on Vietnam to release three human rights activists who were recently detained and allegedly tortured while in custody. In a statement issued…
UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia upholds life in jail for Khmer Rouge leaders
PHNOM PENH – A UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia upheld a life sentence for two top cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge on Wednesday for murder and crimes against humanity. It…
China says 3,000 flee Myanmar after fighting along border
China is giving shelter to more than 3,000 people who have fled Myanmar after fighting between the government and rebels, and stray shells have fallen inside China causing minor damage…
Hỏi và giải đáp 199: Em là gái trời bắt xấu
Bà BT, một nữ độc giả ở Victoria có người cô con gái mà bà gọi là bất hạnh vì trời bắt xấu: A, con gái bà, năm nay 16…
Vietnam media outlets fined over ‘false’ fish sauce reports
The Vietnamese government has fined 50 news organisations in the country for spreading misleading information about the safety of Vietnamese produced fish sauce. Among the news outlets slapped with fines was…
Australia officials to visit teenager detained for drug possession in Bali
Australian consular officials will on Wednesday visit a teenager detained in Bali on suspicion of drug possession, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said. The 18-year-old was detained on Monday after…
Aussie’s death sentence for drug trafficking is reduced to life in Vietnam
HANOI – An appeals court in Vietnam has lightened the death sentence of a 73-year-old Australian woman convicted of heroin trafficking. According to online state media outlet Vietnamnet, it quoted the…
Twelve Indonesians still missing after collision between Vietnamese freighter and their sailboat
The whereabouts of 12 Indonesians who disappeared off Indonesia’s East Java province after a Vietnamese freighter and an Indonesian sailboat collided on Saturday, remains unknown. Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has urged for…
Vietnam abandons plan for first nuclear power plants
HANOI – Vietnam‘s National Assembly voted on Tuesday to abandon plans to build two multi-billion-dollar nuclear power plants with Russia and Japan, after officials cited lower demand forecasts, rising costs…
