カテゴリー: Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ‘submitted resignation from assigned positions, quit job and retired’, say reportsVietnam’s president has resigned after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of an anti-corruption drive that has led to several minister…
Accords negotiated by Kissinger and Le Duc Tho in 1973 sealed US exit from war but were soon flouted by North and South VietnamThe 1973 Nobel peace prize to top US diplomat Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho, among the most disputed in the …
Ten-year-old who fell into a narrow open shaft on New Year’s Eve at construction site confirmed dead A 10-year-old Vietnamese boy who fell into the narrow open shaft of a concrete pillar at a construction site on New Year’s Eve has been confirmed dead,…
Ly Hao Nam, 10, fell down a narrow shaft on New Year’s Eve but there was no response from him on MondayRescuers in Vietnam were desperately trying to free a 10-year-old boy on Monday, two days after he fell into the narrow open shaft of a concrete pile…
Dredging and landfill work creates 170 hectares of new land in Spratly Islands, which are also claimed by China and othersVietnam has conducted a major expansion of dredging and landfill work at several of its South China Sea outposts in the second hal…
Thousands of people from Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand have been tricked into slavery and are unable to leave a ‘living hell’When the advert popped up on Ly Thi Lan’s* Facebook feed, it seemed like the perfect opportunity. An employer in Cambodia was lo…
As Hurricane Ian hits the Americas, Noru has been ripping through the Philippines, Vietnam and ThailandHurricane Ian has been in the headlines but it is not the only storm that has been causing havoc in the past week. On Tuesday, Typhoon Noru struck so…
Thaw Nandar Aung, AKA Han Lay, feared being sent home after she was stopped at Thai border last weekA Myanmar fashion model who was denied entry to Thailand and feared arrest by the military government in Yangon if she was forced back home from exile h…
Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaignersMore than 50 winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize are calling on the UN to reject a bid by Vietnam to …
Only Singapore has imposed sanctions, while others have been receptive to Moscow’s offers of friendshipRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesThe head of Myanmar’s military junta beamed with joy as he shook hands with Vladimir Putin this week. “We would ca…
Blaze engulfed bar near Ho Chi Minh City, trapping people inside and forcing some to jump from the second-floor buildingThe death toll from a fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam has risen to 32, state media have said.The blaze engu…
Speakers to be installed across capital for daily pronouncements as government’s plan labelled ‘archaic and redundant’Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi is famous for its noise pollution, with the sound of vehicles driving, horns blasting, construction hammeri…
Phuc, pictured in 1972 running from napalm attack during Vietnam war, has final laser treatment in MiamiPhan Thi Kim Phuc, whose photograph became a symbol of the horrors of the Vietnam war, has had her final skin treatment with a burn specialist, 50 y…
Hurling, camogie and other sports have pushed into places like Thailand and Vietnam, where players find them inclusiveIn a floodlit field, 20 women run the length of a pitch kicking, bouncing and passing the ball in a game of Gaelic football. Sweating …
Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in FebruaryThe US government has said it is “deeply concerned” by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vi…