Man charged with murder of woman in Hougang, Singapore

SINGAPORE: A man has been charged with murder after a Vietnamese woman was killed in a knife attack in Hougang on Tuesday (Dec 10). The incident also left another man injured. Chinese national Du Zaixing appeared in court via video link on Thursday (Dec 12) as his charge was read out to him. He faces the death...

Four safe-cracking Vietnamese burglars shot dead at Jalan Imbi

KUALA LUMPUR: Four Vietnamese men, believed to have been responsible for 44 theft cases in the Klang Valley since 2018, were killed following a shootout with police at a residency in Jalan Imbi. The group modus operandi was to drill steel safes in homes and offices before stealing their contents, including cash. Kuala Lumpur police chief Comm...

Cops arrest Vietnamese woman to assist in arson case probe in Sitiawan

IPOH: A 38-year-old Vietnamese woman has been arrested to assist in the investigation of a fire involving three houses and four vehicles in Taman Singa, Sitiawan. Manjung OCPD assistant commissioner Hasbullah Abd Rahman said police initially received a call from a 42-year-old house owner at Taman Singa in Sitiawan at around 2.50am on Friday (Nov 8),...

Seven Vietnamese women saved in prostitution bust, Bangladeshi ‘captain’ nabbed

PETALING JAYA: Seven Vietnamese women were rescued after the Immigration Department busted a human trafficking and sex exploitation syndicate here. The department said that the seven women, aged between 32 and 45 years old, were rescued during a raid at a shoplot in Klang on Oct 21. "Based on complaints received, the women were imprisoned inside the...

Three Chinese nationals held over abduction of Vietnamese tourist in Paranaque

MANILA: Three Chinese nationals were arrested on Tuesday (Aug 6) for reportedly abducting a Vietnamese tourist in Paranaque City, according to police. In a report on Wednesday, the Southern Police District (SPD) said the three Chinese suspects, identified as alias Jun, 31, Hao, 27, and Zhang, 26, were arrested during a coordinated operation on Aug 6. The...

Six people are found dead in a hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected, police say (update)

BANGKOK (AP) - Police in Thailand say the bodies of six people were found Tuesday in a luxury hotel in downtown Bangkok and poisoning is suspected. Thailand's Foreign Ministry said in a short statement that the dead were reported to be two Vietnamese Americans and four Vietnamese nationals. They were not identified further. The Thai newspaper Matichon...

Three Vietnamese women among four killed in car-lorry crash on NSE

BATU PAHAT: Four people, including three Vietnamese women, were killed when their vehicle crashed into a trailer lorry at KM123.8 of the North-South Expressway (NSE), the Pagoh-Yong Peng stretch. Batu Pahat acting OCPD Supt Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah Sani said the accident occurred at 9.15pm on Tuesday (June 11) after the lorry broke down in the middle...

Coronavirus traces on Vietnamese, Thai fruit see Chinese cities close stores, impose quarantine

A number of Chinese cities have started emergency screenings for coronavirus on imported food and ordered fruit buyers to quarantine after fresh produce from Southeast Asia tested positive. Despite little evidence that people can catch Covid-19 from food, at least nine cities in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces have reported positive coronavirus results on dragon fruit imported...