Vietnam

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international…

Garrya Mu Cang Chai - Image Credit Banyan Group    Banyan Group has opened Garrya Mu Cang Chai, a bamboo-structured wellness resort in Vietnam's Lao Cai Province. Banyan Group has announced the opening of Garrya Mu Cang Chai, a wellness resort in Vietnam's northern highlands. Situated at an altitude of 1,500…

Monika Luabeya Dec 15, 2025 A camera on the International Space Station captured this Oct. 2, 2025, photo of the Bassac River in Cù Lao Dung, a river islet district in southern Vietnam. The Bassac River surrounds the district before emptying into the South China Sea. The river’s brown waters…

by AFP Staff Writers Hanoi, Vietnam (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 Toxic smog has blanketed Vietnam's capital for more than a week, blotting out the skyline and leaving residents wheezing as Hanoi's air quality dipped to among the world's worst on Thursday. The city of nine million ranked second only to…

Despite being a seasoned traveller, local TV host Danny Yeo shared that travelling to Vietnam for the new travelogue Rail Life Story made him feel like he's "been through a second life". The 52-year-old told AsiaOne at the Asia TV Forum & Market 2025 (ATF) on Dec 4: "It was…

You’re a traveler. You’ve just wrapped up a sweaty jungle trek in Vietnam, or maybe you’re killing time on a long-haul train slicing through Eastern Europe. You open your phone, pass a few minutes playing your go-to casino game, and hit a decent win. Great, right? But what happens next…

Wednesday 10 December 2025 2:08 pm Eurofins Consumer Product Testing Vietnam has completed a major expansion, seeing the laboratory move to a purpose-built 7,000 sq. m laboratory in Ho Chi Minh City. This new facility provides more than two and a half times the floor space of Eurofins Consumer Product…

Vietnam and Hong Kong enter the global top 10. Six Asia-Pacific markets appear in the top 20. Tokenisation rises 63% to more than 25.7 billion dollars. Singapore’s rise to the top of global crypto adoption signals a broader shift in how digital assets are becoming embedded across the Asia-Pacific. A…

An unusually intense series of storms and major cyclones converged in South and Southeast Asia in recent weeks, killing more than 1,600 people since mid-November.  The destruction left behind by the storms in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka has been staggering. Entire towns inundated by flooding.…

A young mum fighting for life in a Vietnam hospital after a cosmetic procedure went catastrophically wrong had spent years carefully planning her surgery in the hope of looking like Kylie Jenner. Chloe Mowday, 31, travelled to Da Nang for rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty on her nose and eyelids at an…