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SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — Other suspects could have poisoned the half-brother of North Korea’s leader besides the two women on trial for his audacious assassination in Malaysia, an expert witness said Wednesday. Pathologist Mohamad Shah Mahmood said it was possible four other suspects who are mentioned in the charge sheet but are still at large could have administered a nerve agent before Kim Jong-Nam was attacked by the women. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese […]
HA TINH, Vietnam (AFP) — Shaken residents in central Vietnam were piecing their homes and businesses back together Saturday after a powerful typhoon hammered large swathes of coast and killed at least four people. Typhoon Doksuri tore through Vietnam Friday afternoon, reducing structures to piles of debris and knocking out electricity and telecommunications in several provinces, in one of the worst storms to hit the country in years. Residents woke up Saturday to the […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate its central coastal area as Typhoon Doksuri closed in, with officials predicting the storm could be the most powerful in a decade. Doksuri is expected to make landfall in Vietnam midday Friday, packing heavy winds and rain. Officials ordered an offshore fishing ban, while some 47,000 people in Ha Tinh province began leaving their homes Thursday, according to an official from […]
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) — Vietnam has delivered a sharp rebuke to China over military drills in the South China Sea, the second such warning in a week as tensions rise between the countries over the disputed waterway. China and Vietnam have long traded barbs over the strategic and resource-rich South China Sea, which Beijing claims most of. Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia also have competing claims in the sea. Tensions have flared in recent […]
(Eagle News) – Vietnam and the Philippines have a very outstanding relationship, one which will even be stronger, according to Vietnamese ambassador to the Philippines H.E. Ly Quoc Tuan. During a recent visit to Eagle Broadcasting Corporation, the Vietnamese ambassador shared the unique relationship of Philippines and Vietnam – two member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations whose peoples had made a lot of sacrifices to achieve independence. The relationship between Vietnam and […]
HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Vietnam’s most powerful leader has called for greater unity among Southeast Asian states at a time the country has appeared increasingly isolated in challenging China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. Making the first visit by a Vietnamese communist party chief to Indonesia, Nguyen Phu Trong said in a speech televised at home on Wednesday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needed to be unified in resolving territorial […]
(Eagle News) – ASEAN Secretary General Lê Lương Minh said that the regional bloc’s foreign ministers are pushing for a legally binding Code of Conduct on the South China Sea. In an interview with CNN Philippines, Minh said that only a legally binding Code of Conduct will be effective in preventing and managing tensions in the South China Sea where various countries have competing claims. Minh cited that the previous Declaration on the Conduct […]
by Martin Abbugao / Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Vietnam urged other Southeast Asian nations to take a stronger stand against Chinese expansionism in the South China Sea on Saturday, as a tense regional security forum began with North Korea also under fire over its nuclear program. Ahead of the launch of the annual gathering of foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam made a […]
by Tran Thi Minh Ha Agence France Presse Officials in Vietnam’s traffic-choked capital Hanoi vowed on Tuesday to banish motorbikes by 2030 to ease environment and congestion woes, a decision that swiftly divided a city where two-wheelers are the main means of transportation. Hanoi is famed for legions of motorbikes — sometimes stacked with entire families or overloaded with deliveries — that clog roads in a fast-growing city with limited public transportation. There are […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An American warship on Sunday sailed close to a disputed island in the South China Sea occupied by Beijing, as part of an operation to demonstrate freedom of navigation in the waters, a United States official said. The destroyer USS Stethem passed less than 12 nautical miles (22 kilometers) from tiny Triton Island in the Paracel Islands archipelago, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam, the official told AFP. […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has urged the Group of Seven leading economies to “stop making irresponsible remarks” after the G7 summit expressed concern about the situation in the East and South China Seas. China has a dispute with Japan over small uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, while its claim to most of the South China Sea is challenged by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. In their closing communique in Italy […]
Socialist Republic of Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrives at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 on April 28, 2017. Prime Minister Phuc is in the country for his attendance to the 30th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on April 29, 2017.
