One of Vietnam's leading democracy activists said Tuesday that he was released from prison because he has a brain tumor and suffered three strokes while in custody. The Rev. Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, 63, said communist authorities freed him Monday after he served just three years of an ...

Australia's ANZ Banking Group is looking to pull out of a tie-up with Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Bank, the Vietnamese bank said, after opening a wholly-owned local unit in the communist state. "ANZ has actively sought partners" to buy its shares, Dang Van Thanh, chairman of Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Bank (Sacombank), one of Vietnam's largest private lenders ...

A dissident Vietnamese Catholic priest jailed for spreading propaganda against the communist state said Tuesday he had been temporarily released from prison to undergo treatment for a brain tumour. Nguyen Van Ly, whose release has been sought by US lawmakers and who was labelled a prisoner of conscience by the European Parliament, was let out of prison on Monday, his ...