Vietnam jails Australian citizen for 12 years on ‘terrorism’ charges
HANOI – A court in Vietnam has sentenced a 70-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of “terrorism”, a lawyer who attended the trial told…
Police say all 39 people found dead in UK truck were Vietnamese
HANOI/LONDON – The 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck after being smuggled into Britain last month all came from Vietnam and have been formally identified.…
“Global ring” involved in smuggling 39 found dead in UK truck, court told
CHELMSFORD, England – A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as…
Postcards from a poisoned coast: Vietnam’s people-smuggling heartland
NGHE AN, Vietnam – The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labour export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Thousands…
British PM Johnson says whole nation shocked by 39 deaths in truck
GRAYS, England – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written in a book of condolences for the 39 people found dead in a truck on Oct. 23 that the whole…
Vietnam police take DNA from relatives of suspected truck victims
CAN LOC, Vietnam – Police in Vietnam have taken hair and blood samples to get DNA from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in the…
From bubble tea to disaster: How one Vietnamese dreamer apparently met her fate
HANOI – In Berlin she posed outside a beer garden, a beaming smile upon her face. In Brussels she sipped sugary bubble tea and posed on the steps of the…
Australia bars entry to Vietnamese woman for failing to declare raw pork
SYDNEY – Australia has refused entry to a Vietnamese woman for failing to declare 10 kg of raw pork, seafood and poultry on arrival in Sydney, its first expulsion under…
Chinese ship inches closer to Vietnam coastline amid South China Sea tensions
HANOI – A Chinese survey vessel has extended its activities to an area closer to Vietnam’s coastline, ship tracking data showed, after the United States and Australia expressed concern about…
No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese
CHNOK TRU, Cambodia – Troung Van Long is Vietnamese in name only. He was born in Cambodia and has lived there for decades, including many years in a floating house…
