カテゴリー: Vietnam
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam plan to build more than 600 coal power unitsFive Asian countries are jeopardising global climate ambitions by investing in 80% of the world’s planned new coal plants, according to a report.Carbon Tracker, a fi…
Migrant labourers tell of being forced to isolate in brutal conditions as Covid wave grips regionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, he…
Government considers adding more destinations to England’s red list as it monitors Vietnam variantCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK is unlikely to unlock significant new summer destinations this week when changes to tra…
‘Very dangerous’ coronavirus variant is ‘more transmissible’ than previously known typesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAuthorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Covid varian…
Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore race to contain clusters as experts warn jabs must be distributed more evenlyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSouth-east Asian countries, including nations that managed to control the…
‘Luckily, the baby fell into my lap,’ says 31-year-old in Hanoi who climbed on to a roof to get better view of dangling childA “superhero” delivery driver in Hanoi has saved a two-year-old girl who fell from a 12th-floor balcony. Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, …
Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a ‘full assault on the art of rap’ The US ambassador to Vietnam has recorded an original rap and music video ahead of Tet, the lunar new year, risking inevitable rid…
The journalists were convicted at one-day trial and sentenced to between 11 and 15 years in jailA court in Vietnam has sentenced three freelance journalists known for their criticism of government to between 11 and 15 years in prison, after finding the…
Storm forecast to hit the country on Sunday morning with winds of up to 150 kphVietnamese authorities have ordered 460,000 people in the country’s central region to be ready for evacuation ahead of Typhoon Vamco, after the storm killed at least 42 peop…
At least 15 already confirmed dead in central Quang Nam province following torrential rains brought by strongest storm in decadesRescue teams in Vietnam have used heavy machinery to search for survivors buried under landslides triggered by torrential r…
More than 100 so far reported dead or missing after two storms destroy homes and leave trail of destruction Floods and landslides in Vietnam are reported to have left at least 102 people dead or missing, while tens of thousands of people have lost thei…
Pham Doan Trang was charged with opposing the state just after the country held talks with the US on human rightsVietnamese authorities have arrested Pham Doan Trang – one of the nation’s most prominent independent journalists.Trang was detained on Tue…
Used contraceptives found in warehouse in Binh Duong province were boiled, dried and resoldPolice in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.Footage by state-owned Vietna…
Prison sentences range from two-and-a-half years and seven-and-a-half years for role in 2019 operation in which 39 people diedVietnam has jailed four people over their roles in the death of 39 migrants found in a refrigerated truck in Britain last year…