Italian police said Saturday they had arrested a man wanted by Britain in connection with a people-smuggling plot that led to the death of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry. Stefan Damian Dragos, a 28-year-old Romanian citizen, is accused of having provided the truck that transported the migrants to England, according to […]
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Keeping the thread alive at a Vietnam silk village
Cocoons bob in boiling water as silk is rapidly teased out, spinning on reels skilfully operated by women in Vietnam’s Co Chat village, where households have been making thread for more than a century. The village in Nam Dinh province, two hours south of the capital Hanoi, is nearing the end of silk production season. […]
Vietnam calls in Russian experts to help preserve corpse of Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam has formed a special team of experts, including four Russian scientists, to help preserve the embalmed body of the Communist-ruled state’s founding leader, Ho Chi Minh, according to a written copy of the official decision seen by Reuters. The special council has been created to assess the condition of Ho’s ageing corpse – first […]
Vietnam police bust $1bn illegal online gambling ring
Police in Vietnam broke up an online gambling ring that had handled more than $1 billion in bets and arrested 22 people, reports said Saturday, in what is believed to be the largest-ever internet betting operation in the communist country. Most forms of gambling are illegal for locals in Vietnam but black market betting flourishes, […]
Vietnam woman in Kim brother’s murder to be freed on May 3
A Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will walk free on May 3, her lawyer said Saturday. Following diplomatic pressure from the Vietnamese government, Malaysian prosecutors had dropped the murder charge against Doan Thi Huong on April 1. Subsequently, the 30-year-old former hair salon worker pleaded guilty […]
S Korean babies born Dec. 31 become 2-year-olds next day
Just two hours after Lee Dong Kil’s daughter was born on New Year’s Eve, the clock struck midnight, 2019 was ushered in, and the infant became 2-years-old. She wasn’t alone, though it happened for her quicker than most: Every baby born in South Korea last year became 2 on Jan. 1. According to one of […]
Pompeo preaches prosperity to North Korea, via Vietnam
POOL/AFP / Andrew HarnikSecretary of State Mike Pompeo took to the streets of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi to draw attention to the relative prosperity he says it enjoys as a new friend of the United States Washington’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo was addressing Vietnamese business leaders but his real audience was not in the Hanoi […]
Kim Jong-Nam murder suspects visit airport crime scene
Two women on trial for murdering the North Korean leader’s half-brother have visited the Malaysian airport where they allegedly poisoned him, escorted by huge numbers of heavily armed police on Tuesday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, wearing bulletproof vests, were brought to Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s budget terminal along with the judge […]