Chinese detergent maker apologises for “racist” TV ad
Screenshot photo taken from the Chinese-brand Qiaobi detergent ad, which has been labelled “racist”. BEIJING – A Chinese detergent maker has apologised for a television advertisement that many in…
TV station sacks producer over Lebanon child recovery bungle
Australian 60 Minutes journalist Tara Brown (C) and 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice arrive at Sydney International Airport, April 21, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) SYDNEY – A producer of the…
Briton found hanged in his home in central Vietnam
A noose for hanging is shown in this illustrated image. (Photo: Reuters/ File) Vietnamese authorities say a British man has been found dead early Sunday morning at his home…
U.N. concerned about rising political tensions in Cambodia
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen looks out from a car as he arrives for a Russia-ASEAN summit at Sochi International Airport, Russia, May 18, 2016. (Photo: Host photo agency via…
US judge sentences Vietnamese man to 40 years for al-Qaeda affiliate support
NEW YORK – A Vietnamese-born man who US authorities say was instructed by a top figure with al Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate to carry out a suicide attack at London’s Heathrow…
Vietnamese ministry denies covering truth about mass fish deaths
Deputy Minister of Nature Resources and Environment Nguyen Linh Ngoc at the press conference. (Photo courtesy: TNMT) Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has denied burying any news…
China faces headaches from warming Viet-U.S. ties
U.S. President Barack Obama and Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang at the presidential palace in Hanoi, Vietnam May 23, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) HONG KONG/BEIJING – At a stroke, the…
Australia pulls Great Barrier Reef damage from UNESCO tourism report
A tourist swims on the Great Barrier Reef in this undated file picture. (Photo: Reuters/ Ho/ Great Barrier Reef National Park authority/ files) SYDNEY – Australia’s Department of the…
NSW farmer found guilty of murdering environment officer Glen Turner
NSW farmer Ian Turnbull is led from a prison truck at the Supreme Court, May 27,2016. (Picture courtesy: John Grainger/ Herald Sun) A New South Wales Supreme Court jury…
WA’s second biggest meth bust: 14 foreigners arrested
A quantity of liquid methamphetamine disguised in various packaging is put on display by Australian Border Force officers at the Australian Federal Police headquarters in Sydney on Feb. 15, 2016…
