Vietnam

In January 1974, South Vietnamese forces clashed with the People’s Liberation Army Navy in the Paracel Island chain—a hot spot between China and present day Vietnam today.The two countries had established their competing claims to the islands—which the Vietnamese refer to as Hoang Sa and the Chinese call Xisha—well before…

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam confirmed an additional three cases of the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, bringing the country’s total to eight cases. The latest confirmed case were in the same flight from Wuhan, China, to Vietnam and had close contact with three previous patients detected on Jan. 30…

A woman wearing a face mask uses her cellphone outside Beijing Railway Station as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsHANOI (Reuters) - Three new cases of coronavirus have emerged in Vietnam, the official health ministry newspaper…

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseGENEVA (Reuters) - The person-to-person spread of the new coronavirus in three countries - Germany, Vietnam and Japan…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The men filmed showering on the motorbike (not pictured here) were criticised on social media Two men have been fined by police after they were filmed showering while riding a motorbike in southern Vietnam, local re…