HANOI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Mirae Asset Securities (037620.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the brokerage arm of South Korea’s top mutual fund firm, plans to buy 15 percent of a Vietnamese bank in its driv…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Dengue fever killed 407 people in Cambodia last year, the highest number of fatalities in nearly a decade, a health official said Friday. Most of those who died from the diseas…

workers have gone on strike at a Taiwan-owned textile plant in southern Vietnam, complaining their wages are not keeping pace with rising consumer prices, a labor official said yesterday. The workers …

HANOI, Jan 5 (Bernama) — Transnational drug crimes with foreign involvement have become more complicated with more cunning tricks, the Vietnam news agency reported Saturday quoting the spokesperson from Police Department for Drug Crime Investigation as saying.

“This is a very disturbing case,” the prosecutor says of Nheat Nhim, 21, who returns to prison for 8 years on gun charges — having already spent 7 years at the ACI.

January 4 marked the 60th anniversary of Burma’s independence from Britain.

Region :Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe Topic :Fellowships and Awards The Internationale Journalisten-Programme (IJP) announces its Asia Pacific fellowship with the 2008 German-Vietnamese Program…

Cambodia last year, the highest number of fatalities in nearly a decade, a health official said Friday. Most of those who died from the disease were children, said Ngan Chantha, director of the Nation…

That was quite an experience travelling from Ko Tao - Chumpon- Bangkok. Took the high speed catamaran boat from Ko Tao to Chumpon, was a HORROR ride for 2 hours. Seas waas really rough and the boat was bumping all over the waves . 75% of th passengers…

BANGKOK, January 4 (Itar-Tass) — Several Russian tourists were slightly hurt during a boat trip in northwestern Thailand on Thursday, a source at the Russian embassy told Itar-Tass.