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Latest news, in-depth features and opinion on Vietnam, covering politics, economy, society and the country's relationships with the United States, Australia, China and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries.
- The Beijing-based Grandview Institution says Hanoi ramped up island expansion in the South China Sea from 2021 using large dredgers
- Vietnam has occupied more Chinese islands and reefs, stationed more troops and built more facilities than any other coastal state to the waters, it says
DHL Express expects its Asia-Pacific business to be strong driven by shifts in supply chain businesses moving out of China amid geopolitical tensions.
From a baby in Hong Kong left with ‘irreversible’ brain damage after abuse to Asia’s multibillion-dollar fertility treatment industry, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.
From Singapore to New Zealand, same-sex couples wanting to start a family often find the doorway to parenthood barred by entrenched conservatism, legal hurdles and prejudice.
The country saw three waves of high temperatures in April, with the mercury peaking above 43 degrees Celsius at seven weather stations.
South Korea’s durable K9 howitzers have attracted interest from Hanoi as it seeks to diversify from Russian arms.
What started as just one week in May has evolved over the decades into a month-long tribute of events in cities big and small.
The winner of the US$1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer, but identifies as a member of the Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with origins in China.
The Philippines announced it will halt in-person classes at public schools, while Thai power demand rose to a record, as a heatwave grips southern Asia.
Disgraced property mogul Truong My Lan may have been the richest person in Vietnam at one point – before she was caught taking out billions in fraudulent bank loans
With the junkets of Asia’s gambling capital ‘decimated’ by an anti-corruption crackdown, money launderers have shifted focus to more loosely regulated casinos in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Myanmar.
Vuong Dinh Hue, who had been tipped as a contender for the country’s top post, is the second of Vietnam’s top four leaders to exit in five weeks.
A total of 42,000 victims have seen their savings and investments in SCB evaporate after the bank was embroiled in a US$12.5 billion fraud.
Henan, home to the world’s largest iPhone factory, saw smartphone exports reach 6.65 million units in the first quarter, down 60.1 per cent from the same period last year.
Chinese-produced durian is set to be available to the public in July, with production from the tropical island of Hainan likely to reach 200 tonnes this year, although Thailand and Vietnam are set to remain the largest sources.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Chenda Sophea Sok tells Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that Phnom Penh opposes ‘troublemaking in the region by extraterritorial forces’.
Having fled to Hong Kong from Vietnam in the 1970s, Berlin-based chef The Duc Ngo has gone on to redefine Asian fusion cuisine in restaurants in Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany.
Pan’s shocking criminal case that took place over a decade ago has been thrown back into the spotlight in the form of a Netflix documentary, What Jennifer Did, released on April 10
The tech executive met Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta and talked about the possibility of setting up manufacturing in the Southeast Asian nation.
During Tim Cook’s visit, Apple says it will raise investments on suppliers in the Southeast Asian country.
The Buddhist kingdom plans to take a punt on legalised gambling as it rues the billions of dollars in untapped gaming revenue that’s been left on the table. But will it hit the jackpot?
‘If China and Vietnam work well on this’, Manila would ‘not go too far to provoke’ Beijing, analyst says.
Lee George Lam denies link to US$12.5 billion fraud by Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, insisting he was not part of management of Saigon Commercial Bank at the time.
