Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Jetstar is supporting a shake-up in the ownership of its troubled Vietnamese offshoot, Jetstar Pacific, in a deal that will result in it and the national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines, carving up the south-east Asian nation's travel market into low-cost and premium segments.

Australian trade officials met or spoke with a colonel from a Vietnamese spy agency 18 times before suggesting to a Reserve Bank currency firm that it hire him as an agent in an arrangement that is now expected to lead to more corruption charges as part of the nation's biggest bribery probe.

The former governor of the Vietnamese central bank has been linked to an Australian police investigation for allegedly receiving bribes from a banknote printing company that is half-owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

An Australian political activist arrested in Vietnam under a law covering acts ranging from terrorism to moral intimidation, but is yet to be charged with an offence, has been given her first official consular visit since her arrest on October 10.

HANOI — An Australian woman of Vietnamese descent was detained in Vietnam after participating in a rare public demonstration over the weekend, a dissident group said Monday.

Qantas Airways' chief executive on Saturday said two senior employees prevented from leaving Vietnam over fuel-hedging losses had done nothing wrong, and expressed hope for a quick resolution of the case.

Liberal senator has promised to wear a south Vietnamese freedom tie in parliament in protest at a communist party official's visit to Australia.

Vietnam has agreed to grant clemency to two Australians facing the death sentence for drug trafficking.

HANOI - A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian woman of Vietnamese origin to life in jail for trafficking heroin, and her husband, who is also of Vietnamese descent, to a 20-year jail term on the same charge.

HANOI - Vietnam arrested three Australian women after authorities allegedly found heroin in the hotel room of two of them and in a packet hidden on the body of the third as she tried to board a plane home, state-controlled media reported Friday.