Southeast Asian leaders have adopted in an annual summit a contingency plan to mitigate the impact of the Iran war on their people and economies but acknowledged it will be difficult to enforce complex steps like establishing a regional fuel reserve to ensure a steady supply.

Vietnam has unanimously elected Communist Party leader To Lam as president, consolidating his control over both party and state.

Russian officials say that a Russian military plane has crashed in annexed Crimea, killing 29 people on board.

Asian countries are burning more coal to keep power going as the war in the Middle East disrupts other fossil fuel supplies.

Vietnam hold a nationwide vote to choose a new five-year National Assembly, just two months after the ruling Communist Party confirmed its leadership at its national congress and reelected To Lam as general secretary.

Vietnam’s To Lam has been re-elected as the general secretary of its ruling Communist Party.

Spain will end 2025 as the top men’s team in the FIFA rankings after there were limited changes in the new standings.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,400 people and leaving hundreds missing across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

Heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides in Southeast Asia.

Heavy rain has swept central Vietnam, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven people, injuring dozens, and stranding thousands.

Typhoon Fung-wong has blown out of the northwestern Philippines after causing floods and landslides.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong has slammed into the northeastern coast of the Philippines, leaving at least two people dead and forcing over a million to evacuate.

An American man and his teenage son have died after they were stung by a swarm of wasps while ziplining in Laos last month.

Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets into rivers.

Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An.

It’s getting more expensive for Americans to get their caffeine fix.

Typhoon Matmo has weakened into a storm after blowing across the mountainous northern Philippines, where thousands were evacuated.

Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to at least 26, with more missing.

Vietnam has evacuated thousands from its central and northern provinces as Typhoon Bualoi approaches faster than expected.

Typhoon Ragasa has weakened into a tropical depression as it enters northeastern Vietnam.

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Heavy rain has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Southeast Asia, where at least eight deaths were reported in the aftermath of a tropical storm.

Heavy rain has hit Southeast Asia after Typhoon Kajiki made landfall in Vietnam.

Typhoon Kajiki has brought strong winds and heavy rain to southern China's Hainan island and parts of Guangdong province.

Tropical Storm Wipha made landfall in northern Vietnam Tuesday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds that knocked out power in parts of Hung Yen Province.

State media in Vietnam have reported that 34 people were killed after a boat carrying tourists capsized during a sudden thunderstorm.

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free.

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case.

Video images show France's first lady pushing her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembark from their presidential plane to start a tour of southeast Asia this weekend.

The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan.

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated.

If you wanted to find the Vietnam War in American television shows, you mostly had to wait until it was long over.

A new U.N. report warns that transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative scam operations across the globe in response to increased crackdowns by authorities.

A memorial commemorating the Vietnam War will arrive in Callahan on Thursday. The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall, also known as “The Wall that Heals,” is a three-fifths scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

China’s leader Xi Jinping says no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia with a trip to Vietnam.

Lego has opened a $1 billion factory in Vietnam that it says will make toys without adding planet-warming gas to the atmosphere by relying entirely on clean energy.

Sending children back to school in new sneakers, jeans and T-shirts is likely to cost U.S. families significantly more this fall.

China hit back with a stiff import tax on US goods as countries and industries around the world weighed their responses to President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs hikes that are roiling global trade and world markets.

Saturday will mark 50 years since the last United States troops left Vietnam, officially ending the war. On Friday, there was a special ceremony on the USS Orleck to honor those veterans.

The humble fish sauce has been a staple ingredient in Vietnamese kitchens for centuries.

A multi-year cleanup at a former U.S. air base in Vietnam was abruptly halted when the Trump administration cut funding, leaving tons of dioxin-contaminated soil exposed.

Vietnam is revising its energy plans to focus more on large solar farms and less on reliance on coal and natural gas.

A new crackdown on online scam centers has led to over 7,000 people from around the world being held in a Myanmar border town awaiting repatriation.

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one member and how many countries were in the bloc.

Southeast Asian leaders have stepped up pressure on China to respect international law following clashes in the disputed South China Sea, but Chinese Premier Li Qiang remained defiant during annual summit talks as he blamed “external forces” for interfering in regional affairs.

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to boost the country’s nuclear war capability and take other steps to protest the recent arrival of a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea.

The death toll in the aftermath of a typhoon in Vietnam has climbed to 233 as rescue workers recover more bodies from areas hit by landslides and flash floods.

Nearly 200 people have died in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi and 128 are missing as flash floods and landslides take their toll.

Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria.

A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam, raising the death toll there to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have gathered in the capital of Laos for a regional forum that runs through Saturday.

Vietnam has passed a decree radically loosening the Communist Party-ruled state’s control on how electricity is sold to private companies.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to respond to what she calls a fresh South Korean civilian leafleting campaign.

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea’s recent front-line live-fire drills “suicidal hysteria” as she threatened unspecified military steps if further provoked.

An overnight fire in an apartment building on a narrow alley in Vietnam’s capital has killed 14 people and injured six others.

The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022.

For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War.

A Vietnamese real estate tycoon has been sentenced to death in the country’s biggest ever financial fraud case.

A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the country’s largest financial fraud case.

The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

Alice McDermott’s novel about military wives in Vietnam, “Absolution,” and the Jamel Brinkley story collection “Witness” are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week.

A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the critical threshold of 1.5 Celsius, major Asian economies must ensure they can get half of their total electricity from renewables by 2030.

Police in Vietnam say that 10 children are among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise.

A fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital killed at least 56 people, including four children, and injured dozens.

Vice President Kamala Harris has left Washington for Indonesia, where she'll attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit.

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show China is constructing an airstrip on a South China Sea island also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan.

This year's Women's World Cup featured eight nations making their tournament debut.

The United States arrived at the Women’s World Cup as the favorite to win an unprecedented third consecutive title.

Telma Encarnacao scored one goal and assisted on another as Portugal defeated Vietnam 2-0 on Thursday in the Women’s World Cup.

The United States and the Netherlands meet again on the Women’s World Cup stage with smaller stakes than the 2019 title game won by the Americans.

Rose Lavelle says she hopes she’s a smarter player in the years since she was a breakout star for the U.S. in the 2019 Women’s World Cup final against the Netherlands.

Sophia Smith flashed the zipping her lips gesture as she celebrated her second goal against Vietnam during the opening United States' opening match at the Women’s World Cup in tribute to former Stanford teammate Katie Meyer.

Megan Rapinoe’s final run on the global stage begins Saturday when the United States opens its quest to win an unprecedented third consecutive Women’s World Cup title.

The United States begins its journey to a record third consecutive Women’s World Cup title with the same confidence it had in winning the last two tournaments.

The World Cup always draws attention to the inequities between men’s and women’s soccer.

Philippine security forces say they rescued 2,700 people who had been trafficked and tricked into working for cybercrime syndicates.

Vietnam has released a long-anticipated energy plan meant to take the country through the next decade and help meet soaring demand while reducing carbon emissions.

The German government says it is concerned by the recent detention of a prominent environmental campaigner in Vietnam.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed again to push for a second launch of a spy satellite.

Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Day is commemorated every March 29 as a day to publicly honor the courage and sacrifice of the 3 million men and women in the U.S. Armed Forces who served in the Vietnam War.

The Philippine Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a 2005 pact by China, the Philippines and Vietnam to jointly explore for oil in the disputed South China Sea.

State media says the death toll from a fire at a karaoke parlor in southern Vietnam has risen to 32.

The school board in North Dakota’s most populous city has reversed course on its decision to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at its monthly meetings.

Wounded heroes of the U.S. Armed Forces were recognized Friday evening by Jacksonville’s Military Affairs and Veterans Department and the Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 524.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is calling for calm in the Taiwan Strait, urging against any “provocative action” in the wake of a visit to Taipei by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that has infuriated Beijing.

Phan Thị Kim Phuc, the girl in the famous 1972 Vietnam napalm attack photo, is escorting 236 refugees from the war in Ukraine on a flight from Warsaw to Canada.

Harrison was awarded four Purple Hearts and four Bronze Stars for his service in Vietnam. Those are just a few of his service medals.

Vietnam veterans, current and former servicemen and women along with their families, are asked to gather at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Sunday, Nov. 14, to thank the men who served during the Vietnam War.

Vietnam will lift the lockdown in its largest city on Friday, ending nearly three months of restrictions on movement to curb a coronavirus surge.

China has applied to join an 11-nation Asia-Pacific free trade group in an effort to increase its influence over international policies.

The AP's Hau Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam for a long weekend in mid-July.

Vietnam is speeding up its vaccination program in an effort to loosen coronavirus lockdown restrictions in major cities by the end of the month.

Former first lady Michelle Obama and The Poor People’s Campaign have been chosen to receive Freedom Awards from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

A retired Army lieutenant general who has ties to Jacksonville and served in Afghanistan on the front lines in the war on terror talked about whether with a volatile ISIS-K and other unstable factions, the U.S. can be effective in keeping terrorism at bay from afar.

U.S. officials are continuing to investigate two possible cases of so-called Havana Syndrome health incidents that delayed Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip from Singapore to Vietnam.

Vice President Kamala Harris says the U.S. must maintain its focus on evacuating Americans and vulnerable Afghans and shouldn’t get distracted by questions over what went wrong in the chaotic U.S. exit from Afghanistan.