20 May 2013

Popular Vietnamese cable television provider VTV CAB has stopped providing foreign channels, including CNN and BBC, after a new media law that requires editing of programmes before broadcast came...

4:18AM
17 May 2013

A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China. The sentences, handed down...

1:27AM
16 May 2013

A Vietnamese court has sentenced two young activists to lengthy prison sentences for distributing anti-Chinese leaflets in Ho Chi Minh City.

6:26PM
15 May 2013

Important things are happening in Vietnam. Most attention has been given to the state repression that continues to sully its reputation internationally.

3:06AM
14 May 2013

Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation - the World Bank's private lending arm - are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing...

2:08AM
23 Apr 2013

If there has been a running theme of this column, it has been the way countries across the region have been discreetly but actively co-operating to deal with the challenges of China's rise.

3:51AM

Japan and Vietnam are to hold talks on maritime security in Hanoi in May, with both sides keen to step up co-operation to counter China's increasing naval pressure and presence in the region.

3:04AM

A Vietnamese local government official was jailed for two and a half years Wednesday for the destruction of the home of a farmer who became a national hero for resisting eviction, state media said...

5:33PM

As China scrambles to contain a deadly new strain of bird flu, Cambodia is battling a spike in the better known H5N1 strain that is baffling experts a decade after a major outbreak began in Asia...

1:32AM

A week after China fired flares at Vietnamese fishing boats in yet another stand-off in the South China Sea, the two countries showed they could quietly co-operate

4:19PM

A capacity crowd at Mong Kok Stadium witnessed Hong Kong's improbable 1-0 victory over Vietnam in the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers last night. Skipper Chan Wai-ho scored the only goal, heading home a...

5:40AM

The Obama administration expressed concern on Thursday about Vietnam’s “backsliding” on human rights and asserted that advancing individual freedoms is key to US policy in Asia.

1:26PM

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