Little was known about the buyer who snapped up Sirius, the iconic public tower in The Rocks overlooking Sydney Harbour for $150 million a year ago.

Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, a freshman at Laney College in Oakland, was asked by math professor Matthew Hubbard to ‘anglicize’ her name. ‘Your name in English sounds like F*** Boy,’ he wrote.

A truck driver accused in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found inside a refrigerated container that had been hauled to England pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday. Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon in Northern Ireland, entered the plea at Central London Criminal Court.

Robert Rooney was jailed for three years after trying to bring three Vietnamese migrants into the UK in an ‘airtight’ roof box. The Irish-born HGV driver was said to be struggling with loans.

Thich Quang Do, a dissident Buddhist monk who has effectively been under house arrest since 2003 and was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize, has died aged 93. Head of the banned Unified Buddist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), the vocal patriarch was born on November 27, 1928 in northern Thai Binh province and […]

Maurice Robinson, 25, was arrested shortly after the bodies of 31 men and eight women were discovered in the back of his lorry on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the deaths of 39 migrants who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex.

AFP spoke last month to several families of Vietnamese nationals feared to be among the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck in southeast England last month. On October 21, two days before the truck was found, he wrote to his family asking them to get $13,000 to pay to smugglers for his trip […]

Nguyen Dung, from Ha Tinh in Nghe An province, says he was so desperate to build a better life for his family that he came to Birmingham in a ‘metal coffin’ to work seven days a week.

Nguyen Thi Phong and Pham Van Thin, have told of how it was ‘very painful’ to receive a text from their daughter which said she was ‘dying because she couldn’t breathe’.