Best new Las Vegas restaurants and bars on the Strip and beyond
The Las Vegas dining scene has a spicy relationship with stereotypes. It creates them, embraces them, defies them, reinvents them. Which tropes we hold closest…
Art, violence and resistance: Raoul Peck and Viet Thanh Nguyen | Al Jazeera
Filmmaker Raoul Peck and author Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss their road to making art that’s political and subversive. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck highlights the roots…
Apartment block fire in Vietnam’s Hanoi kills 14, state media says | News
Fire reportedly started in courtyard between two buildings used to sell and repair electric bicycles. A fire at an apartment block in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi…
Vietnam’s security chief To Lam becomes new president | Politics News
Lam’s appointment comes after a major anticorruption drive that analysts say he has weaponised for his benefit. Vietnam’s rubber-stamp parliament has approved public security minister…
Vietnam nominates public security minister to be new president | Politics News
To Lam has been public security minister since 2016 and has taken a hard line on human rights movements in the country. Vietnam’s governing Communist…
Pete McCloskey, antiwar candidate who took on Nixon, dies at 96
When Pete McCloskey challenged President Richard M. Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972, his defeat was nothing short of stunning. Only one of the…
Do pro-Palestinian protests signal a shift in U.S. support for Israel?
WASHINGTON — The relationship between the United States and Israel has been a tight embrace almost ever since the founding of the Jewish-led state 76 years…
Week in pictures: A heatwave in Vietnam to Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem
A roundup of some of last week's events. Source link
Vietnam’s Economy: Mixed signs of Recovery
Vietnam’s economy is displaying a combination of positive and negative indicators in its recovery, with an estimated growth rate of 5.5% in 2024 that is…
Head of Vietnam’s parliament resigns amid corruption crackdown | Corruption News
The top lawmaker in Vietnam has been forced to step down as the country’s anticorruption drive gathers pace. The head of Vietnam’s parliament has resigned…
Vietnam jails soft drinks tycoon for eight years in $40m fraud case | Corruption
Tran Qui Thanh was found guilty of scamming investors over loans issued in 2019 and 2020. Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon was jailed for eight years…
Vietnam tycoon sentenced to death in $12.5 billion fraud case
A court in Vietnam handed the death sentence on Thursday to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan for her role in a 304-trillion-dong ($12.5-billion) financial fraud,…
World’s first GOLD PLATED hotel where everything is covered in 24-carat bling from walls to toilets and even STEAKS
LIVING a life of luxury couldn't be much easier than when staying inside of a completely gold plated hotel. The one-of-a-kind complex comes with a…
Vietnam’s micro-apartments are a godsend for the poor – and a deadly risk | Housing News
Hanoi, Vietnam – In Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan district, where labyrinthine alleys bustle with residential life and university students, memories of last year’s deadly apartment fire…
‘The Sympathizer’ creators on depicting war through a Vietnamese lens
When Park Chan-wook read “The Sympathizer” for the first time, maybe six or seven years ago, he felt like he was watching fireworks explode in…
Billionaire Truong My Lan sentenced to death by lethal injection over $44BILLION fraud in one world’s biggest ever scams
A VIETNAMESE tycoon was sentenced to death by lethal injection over one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen. Billionaire Truong My…
Thailand’s economy stumbles as Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia race ahead | Business and Economy
Bangkok, Thailand – Sheltering from the sun on a street corner, Kridsada Ahjed rues the day he got involved with the loan sharks who now…
Gaza war reminds Vietnam of liberation struggle once shared with Palestine | Israel War on Gaza News
Hanoi, Vietnam - At a private venue tucked away in a narrow alley in Hanoi's city centre, a group of more than 20 people listened…
Week in pictures: From deadly ISIL attack in Russia to drought in Vietnam
A roundup of some of the main events last week. Source link
Why has Vietnam’s president resigned after just a year? | Politics
Vo Van Thuong is the latest high-profile figure to resign amid a corruption crackdown. Vietnam’s president has resigned after only a year in office. Vo…