Your guide to every 2020 V.League 1 club

The 2020 V.League 1 season is almost upon us and (coronavirus permitting) the season will kick off this coming week. To mark the start of the season, Viet Nam News has put together a 14-team preview of each club.

Japanese doctor brings light to visually-impaired

Over the past 17 years, Japanese doctor Tadashi Hattori has become a friend to many visually-impaired patients in remote and disadvantaged areas of Việt Nam, particularly those in Quảng Ninh, Thái Nguyên, Bắc Kạn, Bình Phước and Cà Mau.

Trump ally gets 40 months' prison amid presidential meddling row Donald Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president's political interference in the justice system.

French Oscars academy board resigns after Polanksi row The entire board of the Cesar Academy, which awards France's equivalent of the Oscars, resigned Thursday just two weeks ahead of its gala ceremony after more than 200 actors, producers, directors and movie personalities demanded "profound reform".

President of scandal-hit French skating says he might resign

The president of the French figure skating federation said on Thursday that he might resign over the sex abuse scandal that has engulfed his sport, while the coach at the centre of the controversy is ready to face prosecutors.

Japan urges Ghosn to return as fugitive tycoon defends escape Japan's justice minister on Thursday urged Carlos Ghosn to return and make his case in court, after the fugitive former auto tycoon gave an impassioned defence of his decision to jump bail and flee to Lebanon.

Boeing document dump shows 'disturbing' picture on 737 MAX: official Boeing provided a fresh batch of incriminating documents on the 737 MAX to regulators and congressional investigators on Tuesday, only hours after announcing a leadership shakeup.

Hundreds of thousands protest in France over pension reform plans Hundreds of thousands of French protesters took to the streets on Tuesday in a pension reform standoff that has sparked nearly two weeks of crippling transport strikes, with the government vowing it will not give in to union demands to drop the overhaul.

Trudeau pushes tax cuts, climate in test for minority government Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a legislative agenda on Thursday that touts tax cuts and tougher climate actions in the first test of his new minority government.

Trump fires US navy chief over handling of SEAL case The chief of the US Navy on Sunday criticised Donald Trump after being sacked in a dispute over an elite SEAL commando whose demotion for misconduct was reversed by the president.