Driver Maurice Robinson, accused in the deaths of 39 people from Vietnam found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, near London last October, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter on April 8.

Indonesia on April 4 confirmed 106 new patients of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), bringing the total number in the Southeast Asian country to 2,092.

At least two people have died and many others were injured in a fire at the PV Oil Building in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa on Thursday afternoon.

At least five people have been stabbed dead and one other seriously injured after a man killed his wife and tried to flee in the northern province of Thai Nguyen Province early this morning.

 Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of US rapper XXXTentacion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police in central Binh Phuoc Province on Thursday arrested a homeless man for his alleged involvement in the death of a four-year-old girl in Tien Hung Commune, Dong Xoai Town.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Four people, including a two-year-old girl, were stabbed to death in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Thursday morning.

 A violent storm in eastern China that packed gale-force winds and hail killed 98 people and injured hundreds as it flattened power lines, overturned cars and ripped roofs off houses in Jiangsu province.

 To Nepal, officials have announced that the death toll from last week's earthquake has surpassed 7,040. Over 14,000 people are also known to have been injured. As of Saturday, around 2.5 million people were living in temporary shelters.

 A Malian nurse has died of Ebola, the second confirmed death from the disease in the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health and the police of Khanh Hoa Province are investigating the death of three babies after cleft lip and palate surgery at the Military Hospital No. 87 in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa Province. 

Heavy rain has hampered rescue operations in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture where a deadly landslide killed at least 39 people.

 Robin Williams was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's disease at the time of his death, his wife has said.

 The Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, 49, has died in a plane crash, party members and local officials say.

 Police in South Korea have said that a body they found in June is that of the fugitive boss of the operator of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least 10 people were killed, four injured and two missing after typhoon Rammasun swept through northern mountainous provinces last weekend, according to initial reports.

 The World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting an emergency meeting in Ghana on Wednesday on the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

 Saudi Arabia's death toll from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has surged to 282 after recalculations, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi-based Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases confirmed a Thanh Hoa-born female patient had died of influenza A virus strain H1N1.