Security at Malaysia’s Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (Esszone) has been intensified following information on possible kidnapping plans by terror group Abu Sayyaf.
Leaders of the Mekong subregion countries and Japan decided to lift the two sides’ cooperation to a strategic partnership at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting in Tokyo on October 9.
Professionals from Vietnam, France and Germany will share their experiences and insights about risky play through a seminar held in Hanoi on October 6.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs plans to submit a report to the municipal People’s Committee on the best ways to protect children and help them live in a safe, healthy and inclusive environment.
The wife of one of the Indonesian fishermen recently kidnapped has received a call asking for a ransom of 4 million ringgit (nearly 1 million USD) to secure the release of the two victims, police said on September 25.
Three Indonesian fishermen abducted by members of an Islamist group have been freed 18 months after they were abducted in waters off the southern Philippines, the Philippine military said on September 16.
Indonesian fishermen were kidnapped by armed men on September 11 in the waters off Semporna, a town in Malaysian state of Sabah.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has proposed a dialogue between his administration and the country's Islamist extremist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to end conflicts.
The Philippine Navy said on July 16 that it and the Royal Australian Navy has started 10-day joint exercises in the Sulu Sea to deal with threats of kidnapping and terrorism.
Ambassador Pham Thi Kim Anh, Chargé d'Affaires of the Vietnam Delegation to the United Nations, delivered a speech on behalf of ASEAN at the Open Debate of the UN Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict in New York on July 10.
Two Philippine women were kidnapped on a road connecting Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad to oil-rich city of Kirkuk, local security and military officials said on July 7.
Police of Vietnam and China will conduct a joint special operation to combat human trafficking along the shared border from July 1 to September 30, heard a conference on June 27.
The Abu Sayyaf militant group is holding 10 hostages, including a Dutch national, three Indonesians and six Filipinos, said Brigadier General Cirilito Sobejana, commander of the military’s Joint Task Force, on March 27.
A Filipino couple have been beheaded by Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in a remote village on Basilan island in southern Philippines, a military official said on January 5.
President Tran Dai Quang has requested an extensive examination and inspection of the observance of law provisions at preschools, kindergartens and children’s groups throughout the country so as to prevent and strictly handle violations against children.
Six soldiers of the Philippine army were killed and four others were injured during a clash with gunmen of Abu Sayyaf in the southern Basilan province of the Philippines.
The phone rings all day inside the small room at 35 Tran Phu street in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district.
Four men arrested just before the closing ceremony of the 29th Southeast Asian Games in Malaysia were charged with having ties with the Abu Sayyaf militant group.
