01-07-2019 14:55
Dozens of people were wounded with fatalities feared as a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul early Monday (Jul 1) and gunmen battled special forces in an area housing military and government buildings, officials said.
21-06-2019 09:22
At least 44 people were killed when a bus in India's mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh plunged into a gorge on Thursday (Jun 20), officials said.
17-06-2019 10:26
Electricity services have been restored to more than 70 per cent of Argentina and Uruguay following a massive blackout that left around 48 million people without power on Sunday (Jun 16), authorities said.
14-06-2019 08:35
As the domestic stainless steel production capacity far outweighs the actual demand, the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang’s decision to approve the cold-rolled stainless steel project by two Chinese investors, after it was rejected at least twice in the southern province of Dong Nai, is causing local steelmakers a great deal of concern and drawing calls to tighten the licensing of new steel projects. Phuong Thu reports.
13-06-2019 08:49
At least 31 children have died in northern India in the last 10 days from a deadly brain disease believed linked to a toxic substance found in lychee fruit, health officials said on Wednesday (Jun 12).
06-06-2019 10:05
The Vietnamese Party, State, Government and localities always create favourable conditions and protect legitimate rights for foreign firms, including the Republic of Korea’s SK Group, to land technology investment in the country amid the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on June 5.
04-06-2019 07:37
PwC has recently launched a new report leveraging the results of the company’s 22nd Annual Global CEO Survey, providing answers to the current pressing question about creating a more cost-competitive talent model for financial services organisations.
30-05-2019 16:06
At least seven people were killed and nearly 20 were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday (May 29), police and ambulance officials said.
29-05-2019 10:35
Eximbank is postponing its annual shareholders’ meeting once again, after the first postponement less than a month ago. The annual meeting, which was scheduled for April 24 and then May 26, has been postponed to June 2019, according to the bank’s newest press release.
26-05-2019 19:14
At least ten people died and 19 were injured after carbon dioxide leaked from a cargo ship's fire prevention system in eastern China, local officials said Sunday (May 26).
26-05-2019 18:44
The fight between President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday's (May 26) European election in France mirrors a larger battle across the continent between competing visions of bloc's future.
25-05-2019 08:00
At least 19 students - most of them female - died on Friday (May 24) in a fire at an Indian building housing a college, officials said, as images showed people jumping to escape the blaze.
23-05-2019 17:00
As electronic sports (e-sports) gain ground in Vietnam, they make for an exciting, and already tremendous segment of the entertainment industry – which is largely unregulated for now. Oliver Massman, general director of Duane Morris Vietnam LLC, talked with Kim Oanh about the segment and rising sports-related activities, such as betting.
23-05-2019 09:56
KPMG NEXT, one of the CSR programmes of KPMG in Vietnam, aims to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing and taking their business to the next level, not only in the region but also in the world.
18-05-2019 08:53
Taiwan's parliament legalised same-sex marriage on Friday (May 16) in a landmark first for Asia as the government survived a last-minute attempt by conservatives to pass watered-down legislation.