Việt Nam News

A Belgian court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of being the ringleader in the trafficking of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected the top 10 international events that shaped the world in 2021.

At least 49 migrants were killed Thursday in Mexico after the truck they were hiding in hit a retaining wall and overturned in the southern state of Chiapas, a major transit point for those trying to reach the United States.

Chinese and Russian internet media outlets should promote multilateralism, combat false information, safeguard equity and justice in cyberspace, and contribute more to the friendly ties between the two countries, a forum was told on Monday.

Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises.

There is a popular saying in modern Polish: “to defend something like independence.” It means taking a clear and determined stance for some idea or value. Where does the expression come from?

It is clear for the Colombian government that peace building needs to be inclusive and rely on the territories. For this reason, important advances have been made in the restitution of land to those who were dispossessed or who were displaced by actors of the country’s armed conflict.

Strong political leadership and earnest implementation of policies by a committed bureaucracy have been two key factors in India's relative success in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior health official said.

Getting to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times. 

A record number of newsrooms across the world have joined this year’s World News Day, a global day of action to promote the importance of fact-based journalism.

The US intelligence community has reached "broad agreement" that the coronavirus was not developed as a bioweapon, and most US agencies assess with "low confidence" it was not genetically engineered, according to an unclassified summary of a report.

The 13 US military troops killed in the bombing attack on Kabul airport Thursday amounted to the worst single-day loss for the Pentagon in Afghanistan since 2011.

The death toll in Haiti's powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 on Sunday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president's assassination.

The Taliban were on the brink of total victory in Afghanistan on Sunday, with their fighters ordered to wait on the outskirts of the capital and the government conceding it was preparing for a "transfer of power".

This coming Sunday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrates the 54th “ASEAN Day.” For over half a century, ASEAN Member States (AMS) have promoted multilateral dialogue and cooperation. Embracing globalisation, many countries in the region enjoyed explosive economic growth and have collectively emerged as the 5th largest economy in the world.