Archive for October 29th, 2019
UK truck deaths: How Vietnam is still a hotbed of people traffickers
Three years after Al Jazeera uncovered Vietnamese human trafficking practices to the UK, the business is still going strong. It was a terrifying way to die. The grim [...] » More
UK asks Vietnam for help identifying truck death victims
Britain has asked Vietnam for assistance in identifying four of the 39 people found dead in a truck container outside London last week. Few of the victims were carrying [...] » More
Young Vietnamese workers risking life and death on ‘the line’ to Europe
Amid the rice paddies and villages of central Vietnam, residents have a name for the shadowy network used to smuggle their loved ones to Europe. Translated to English, [...] » More
Postcards from a poisoned coast: Vietnam’s people-smuggling heartland
The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labour export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Thousands of [...] » More
Business Briefs 29 October 2019
* Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco), a large shareholder of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Agricultural Company (HNG), has registered to buy an extra five million HNG shares from [...] » More
Asian stocks rise as China-US trade, Brexit fears recede
Asian stock markets followed Wall Street higher Monday as investors looked ahead to a crowded week of corporate earnings, a possible US interest rate cut and other [...] » More
Asian markets boosted by trade deal optimism
Asian markets rallied Monday after China and the US said they were close to agreeing a mini trade deal, but the pound was struggling on fresh Brexit uncertainty while EU [...] » More
Tear gas and molotovs as HK reels from new clashes
Hong Kong was gripped by another day of petrol bombs and tear gas on Sunday as police and pro-democracy protesters clashed for hours throughout a popular tourist district. [...] » More
HK finance chief Paul Chan warns of full-year negative growth as anti-government protests batter economy
Hong Kong’s financial chief on Sunday warned the city was heading towards negative economic growth for the full year as he appealed to the public to unite against the [...] » More
Insurer AIA third-quarter new business posts tepid rise as HK demand slows
Asia-focused insurer AIA Group Ltd said on Monday it posted only a small rise in new business for the third quarter, affected by a “challenging operating [...] » More
If Beijing does not budge, the struggle for HK will last decades
“Is there any way that Hong Kong can avoid becoming another Northern Ireland?” This was the first question posed by a well-known Hong Kong activist at the start [...] » More
As violence and vandalism escalate in HK, some protest supporters have had enough
For most of the summer, 25-year-old Jose was an ardent supporter of the protests raging in Hong Kong. Even when demonstrations became increasingly violent, she defended the [...] » More
Police fire tear gas, water cannon to break up protests in HK’s tourist district
Hong Kong Police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to break up protests in Hong Kong’s tourist district, prompting the protesters to set shops on fire and [...] » More
UK student left with brain haemorrhage in violent arrest by undercover HK officers
It’s hard for “K” to pinpoint the exact moment he believes he suffered a brain haemorrhage during a violent arrest by two undercover officers in Hong [...] » More
HK weekend ends again with protest violence, tear gas
An unauthorised anti-government rally in Hong Kong quickly turned chaotic on Sunday as police used tear gas to disperse protesters on a major tourist strip, leading to hours [...] » More
