In silent meditation, the Falungong members did not flinch when a shirtless, tattooed man slapped them on the head, or when a burly female security agent dragged a dried palm leaf across their faces.

It gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘police dragnet’ authorities in Vietnam have been using giant fishing nets to stop reckless bikers in their tracks, an officer said on Friday.

"We threw the n

It was already too late when Nguyen Van Cuong heard a neighbor shout 'thief! thief!' Two men on a motorbike had snatched up his beloved pet dog 'Black' and were whizzing away.

Cuong and the neighbor

An unidentified Chinese warship demanded that an Indian naval vessel identify itself and explain its presence in South China Sea waters off Vietnam in July, the Financial Times said on Thursday.

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Communist Vietnam has banned police from wearing black sunglasses, chatting, smoking and putting their hands in their pockets while they are on duty in public places, a media report said.

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At least 13 people were killed and several others trapped beneath large boulders after a rockslide at a quarry in Vietnam, an official said on Friday.

Troops were helping the rescue efforts but the c

Six former officials in Vietnam have been jailed for corruption in connection with a sub-standard monument to the country's wartime victory against French colonialists, state media said Tuesday.

India and South Korea have reached an agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, marking the ninth such pact that New Delhi has finalised since getting the NSG waiver in 2008. This announcement was made after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met South Korean President Lee Myung-bak here on Friday on the sidelines of the Asean Summit. “We have finalised agreement on cooperation in civil uses of nuclear energy which is now awaiting signature,” National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon told reporters after the meeting.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will hold one on one talks with the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, with the meeting squeezed in between bilaterals being held with the Singapore and Australian Premiers just before the Prime Minister ends his three nation tour of East Asia, long seen as China’s backyard. Dr Singh will also be calling on his host, Mr Nguyen Minh Triet, the President of Vietnam.

India raised the issue of “stapled” visas as well its other core concern — China’s claims over Arunachal Pradesh — when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the Asean-East Asia Summit in Hanoi on Friday.