Landslides and floods in West Sumatra province, Indonesia, on February 8 have left five people dead, two people missing and forced over 4,000 others to flee their homes. 

The US plans to spend US$66 million for the construction of military camps in the Philippines under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), announced US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg on February 5.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande stressed on February 7 the migrant crisis, which brought more than a million people to the European Union last year, needs an EU-level solution.

Aid trucks and ambulances entered Syria from Turkey on February 7 to help tens of thousands of people who have fled an escalating government assault on Aleppo, as air strikes targeted villages on the road linking the city to the Turkish border.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched a long-range rocket carrying what it called a satellite, drawing renewed international condemnation just weeks after it carried out a nuclear bomb test.

VOV.VN - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon denounced the Democratic People's Republic of  Korea’s satellite launch, calling it “provocative actions”.

VOV.VN -Eighteen people have been reported dead in the 6.7- magnitude earthquake in southern Taiwan on February 6 while hundreds of others are injured.

Cambodian police arrested 23 Republic of Korean nationals on February 5 on suspicion of running a telecom scam. 

VOV.VN - US President Barack Obama and President of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-Hye discussed the situation on the Korean Peninsula in separate phone conversations with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 6.

A powerful earthquake toppled a 17-story apartment building in southern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least two people, including a 10-day-old girl, and triggering frantic efforts to rescue dozens of people feared trapped inside.