Aniruddha Ghosal

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang before a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Hegseth reaffirms Vietnam partnership and hands over a leather box, belt and knife—wartime artifacts taken by U.S. soldiers

By Aniruddha Ghosal and The Associated Press

Thai officials show samples of illegally imported electronic waste from the United States which they said they seized at Bangkok Port during a press conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 14, 2025.

The U.S is drowning Southeast Asia in a ‘hidden tsunami’ of toxic e-waste, 2-year investigation finds

By Aniruddha Ghosal and The Associated Press

05 March 2023, Vietnam, Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt: Different types of rice are for sale at a market in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Alexandra Schuler/dpa (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

How Vietnam’s farmers are untangling the rice paradox—a crop that suffers deeply from climate change is also a major contributor

By Aniruddha Ghosal and The Associated Press

Coffee seedlings in the greenhouse at the Western Highlands Agro-Forestry Scientific & Technical Institute (WASI) in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam, on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. Farmers have not been spared the impact of increasingly erratic weather in Vietnam, the world’s top producer of hardy robusta beans. Photographer: Maika Elan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

European laws to stop deforestation may reorder how coffee is traded and benefit one Southeast Asian nation that has long promoted more sustainable farming methods

By Aniruddha Ghosal and The Associated Press