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Vietnam arrests three on terrorism charges including foreign activists

Rank
Ran
4h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
7
Regions
4
Countries
7
Languages
1

+0

The Japan Times Japan · English 29 Sept, 06:28 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

The only language so far · English, 7 reports

Read at The Japan Times

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 6 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Japan Times, 29 Sept, 06:28 UTC.
  2. Second country: South Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  3. Second region: Africa, with TimesLIVE.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 07:14 UTC.
  5. Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

7 of 7 hours

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The 7 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

15%57%14%14%

  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 15%
  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 57%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%

First movers

  1. The Japan Times 29 Sept, 06:28 UTC
  2. TimesLIVE +47m
  3. The Jerusalem Post +1h 12m
  4. CamboJA News +1h 19m
  5. Free Malaysia Today +2h 26m

Last to join

  1. South China Morning Post 29 Sept, 12:37 UTC
  2. The Independent 29 Sept, 10:50 UTC
  3. Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 08:53 UTC
  4. CamboJA News 29 Sept, 07:47 UTC
  5. The Jerusalem Post 29 Sept, 07:40 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 7 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: South Africa. Asia-Pacific 4: Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia. Europe 1: United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Israel. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English.
Timeline
Earliest article The Japan Times, 29 Sept 2026, 06:28 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 07:40 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 12:37 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Vietnam. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 352 3.52 7 7 7 7 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

This page describes measured coverage: which of the outlets Loudest reads carried the story, from how many countries and in how many languages, and when. It says nothing about whether the story is true, important or well reported.

Started 29 Sept, 07:40 UTC · Updated 12:37 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • TimesLIVE South Africa 29 Sept, 07:14 UTC
    Vietnam arrests three on terrorism charges, including Norwegian and Australian citizens

Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 29 Sept, 12:37 UTC
    Vietnam charges 3 men with terrorism as abduction claim emerges
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 29 Sept, 08:53 UTC
    Vietnamese activists ‘abducted’ in Cambodia, says campaign group
  • CamboJA News Cambodia 29 Sept, 07:47 UTC
    Aussie Activist Detained in Vietnam on Terror Charges
  • The Japan Times Japan 29 Sept, 06:28 UTC
    Vietnam arrests three on terrorism charges, including Norwegian and Australian citizens

Europe 1 outlet

  • The Independent United Kingdom 29 Sept, 10:50 UTC
    Vietnam accused of abducting Norwegian and Australian human rights activists

Middle East 1 outlet

  • The Jerusalem Post Israel 29 Sept, 07:40 UTC
    Three arrested on terrorism, forgery charges in Vietnam, including Norwegian, Australian citizens
Read at The Japan Times

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