ESB International plans to focus on the Far East in a bid to deliver growth.

Kenyan authorities have seized the tusks of 58 elephants – totalling one tonne of ivory – after sniffer dogs led investigators to containers at the country’s main airport that were bound for Nigeria.

VIETNAMESE police say nine friends died during a lunar New Year party after they started a car parked inside a house to play music following an electricity outage.

A typhoon that left dozens dead in the Philippines and two more dead in China weakened to a tropical storm today as it churned towards northern Vietnam, smashing boats in its path and lashing the region with rain and wind.

Five people convicted of murder and drug trafficking in separate cases were executed by firing squads in Vietnam, state-controlled media reported today.