Hanoi - Investors reacted sharply Wednesday to news that the poorly performing Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange would reduce its trading band, the amount by which stocks may rise or fall in a day, to 1…

BANGKOK, Thailand — The Thai police say they will start handing out whistles to foreign women who visit this country after the latest in a long series of periodic sexual assaults and killings. …

Vietnam shares have fallen below a benchmark of 500 points, while markets in Asia and Europe rose strongly. Vietnam shares dropped for the seventh session in a row, as the government planned to buy…

Bangkok - Siriporn Taweesuk, Thailand’s famed female pugilist who fought her way from a prison cell to a world boxing championship, on Wednesday sold her life story to a production company seeking to …

A boat sank in Vietnam’s central Quang Binh province, killing two local people and left four others missing, local newspaper Labor reported Wednesday. The boat carrying wood sank in Quang Ninh distric…

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga — The Philippine government signed here on Wednesday an agreement to purchase 1.5 million metric tons (MT) of white rice from Vietnam. According to Vietnamese Ambassador to t…

Forest still covers some 59 percent of Cambodia’s total area, English-Khmer language newspaper the Mekong Times on Wednesday quoted Environment Minister Mok Mareth as saying. "Though there is cri…

Bangkok - The slaying and alleged torture by authorities of an imam in southern Thailand poses a “key test” for the country’s justice system, deemed one of the causes of the cycle of violence in the a…

Lao pilot, flying over Texas.
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Asia’s first regional rapid response distribution center to rush supplies to areas struck by a bird flu outbreak opened Tuesday near the Thai capital.