US director Spike Lee is to head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in July. The New York filmmaker had been set to chair last year's event before it was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic.

HANGZHOU, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Alibaba.com, an online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace for global wholesalers under the Alibaba Group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday wi

HANOI, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 infection on Wednesday, including five imported and two locally transmitted, according to the country's Ministry of Health.

Vietnam's health ministry announced on Wednesday that the country's domestically made Covid vaccine, Nanocovax, will be available by the end of 2021, with the government planning to start d

U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Moderna has begun testing its two-dose COVID-19 vaccine in young children to determine if vaccinations should be expanded to people younger than 18 years of age.

VIENTIANE, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Bananas continue to be a top earner among all agricultural products, with the total export value of agricultural produce in 2020 reaching almost 1 billion U.S. dolla

VIENTIANE, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 40,732 people including medical workers and officials in high-risk groups in Laos have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, local media repo

BEIJING, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia confirmed 75 more local COVID-19 cases on

PHNOM PENH, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government on Wednesday established an ad-hoc committee for COVID-19 vaccination, according to a decision signed by Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun S

PHNOM PENH, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia confirmed 75 more local COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the total number of infected people linked to the third community transmission to 990, the Min

SHANGHAI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni visited the site of the first national congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Shanghai on Tuesday. On July 23, 1921,

HANOI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded three new cases of COVID-19 infection on Tuesday, all locally transmitted, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 2,560, according to the

VIENTIANE, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Organizers of the China-Laos Film Festival have expected to promote culture exchanges between the two countries as the 2021 version of the event are being held in La

BEIJING, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - COLOMBO -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka surpassed t

PHNOM PENH, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday confirmed 105 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day number of COVID-19 infections since the disease hit the kingdom, said a Ministry of Hea

In order to seize U.S. fighter jets, the Soviets often came up with some elaborate and ingenious schemes. Although, sometimes, they also resorted to down-to-earth bribery.The Cold War betwee

The top U.S. infectious disease expert said Sunday the country is going in the "right direction" with millions of Americans receiving coronavirus vaccinations, but he was cautious about the high pl