Vietnam

First international tourists touched down in Vietnam almost 20 months after the Southeast Asian nation closed its borders to contain the coronavirus. Two charter flights brought more than 400 South Korean and Japanese fully vaccinated…

A 23-year-old Nigerian man has been sentenced to death for smuggling nearly six kilos of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam. Theophilus Ugwu was charged with “illegal trafficking of narcotic substances” and sentenced on Tuesday,…

A 45-year-old Nigerian has been sentenced to death for trafficking nearly four kilograms of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Vietnam. Ekwegbalu James Nzube was sentenced in a court in the southern Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam. He said…

Authorities in Vietnam have seized 324,000 used condoms which were being recycled to be sold again to be the public. Police confiscated the unlabeled rubber contraceptives during a raid at a warehouse located at DX12, Hoa Nhut Quarter,…

Vietnam has recorded its first death from COVID-19, a devastating blow to the country’s proud record of zero deaths since first confirmed case on February 15. The 70-year-old man was from the central city of Hoi An, the state media…

More than 21,000 people in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi have been ordered to take a coronavirus test over fears of new wave of infections. Authorities said this on Thursday as the country makes effort to contain the nation’s first…

A 29-year-old Nigerian man and two Cameroonians have been sentenced to a total of 49 years in jail for defrauding two Vietnamese women to a sum of  VND1.5 billion ($65,800).  The men identified as, Ifeanyi Matthew Anthony, Cameroonians…