Five Vietnamese military pilots have been killed after their twin-engine light transport aircraft crashed into a field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi, local officials said. “Around 10:00am (lo…

A military aircraft crashed to a field in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital city on Tuesday morning, killing all five people on board, a local official told Xinhua. The Made-in-Russia AN-26 with two propellers …

A Bangladeshi airliner made an emergency landing in the Thai capital, Bangkok, after a passenger with a knife caused panic on board, officials say. A man reported to be a Bangladeshi national was tak…

Second day in the jungle, second hike, 4 hours, to the orang asli settelment and into a bat cave.Due to some rain yesterday quite slippery paths and lots of leeches (only Andy got one, we were all lucky). Entered the cave, wow that was quite an exper…

(AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)A GMG Airlines passenger plane taxies on the runway of Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The Bangladeshi plane made an emergency landing Tuesd…

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 03:00 CDT Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Cambodia Weeds Out Marijuana Plantation" - Xinhua headline] PHNO…

BANGKOK — A Bangladeshi airliner made an emergency landing Tuesday in Bangkok after a man with a fruit knife caused a panic among passengers, Thai aviation officials said. The pilot of the GMG Airlin…

Hanoi - Three ethnic Vietnamese political activists, all foreign citizens, were expelled from Vietnam over the weekend after they tried to visit a Vietnamese-American activist who has been imprisoned …

Hanoi - Vietnam, a country with a large underground trade in farming bears for bile and meat, has opened its first bear rescue centre, an official said Tuesday. Tam Dao Bear Rescue Centre, the first o…

A low-cost Bangladesh airline was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok Tuesday after one of the passengers behaved in a threatening manner, media reports said.