Beijing [China], June 5 (ANI): The recent flight by Chinese military planes over hotly contested waters in the South China Sea, off Malaysia's coast, is probably aimed at demonstrating Beijing's growi

PHNOM PENH, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Friday confirmed the first three cases of a more infectious COVID-19 variant, B.1.617, which first emerged in India, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said in a

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HANOI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 224 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 219 locally transmitted and five imported, raising its total tally to 8,287, according to the country's Minist

PHNOM PENH, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia confirmed 886 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the kingdom's second-highest daily total, pushing the national caseload to 33,075, the Ministry of Health said in

ISLAMABAD -- A driver was killed and 28 women were injured when a factory bus they were travelling in plunged into a ditch after gunmen opened fire at them in Pakistan's Hassan Abdal city of the ea

VIENTIANE, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in Laos has been extended till June 19, according to a notice issued by the Prime Minister's Office on Friday. The notice outlines

MANAMA, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran bounced back in World Cup Asian qualifier as it beat Hong Kong, China 3-1 in a Group C fixture on Thursday. Iran suffered two consecutive defeats before Thurs

HANOI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's Ministry of Health announced on Friday that it has approved China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. The approval was signed by Vietnam's dep

HANOI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent nearly 6 billion U.S. dollars in cloth imports in the first five months of this year, posting a surge of 33 percent year on year, according to the General St

Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 4 (ANI): As part of the ongoing Operation 'Samudra Setu II' to support the nation's fight against COVID-19, the Indian Naval Ship Airavat on Thursday arriv

WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS - F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in tw

PHNOM PENH, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Ten villagers subsequently died in northwest Cambodia's Pursat province after drinking locally-made rice wine, which was suspicious of containing high levels of metha

PHNOM PENH, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH)'s secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine called on people to continue exercising caution as the Southeast Asian nation has s

Geneva [Swizerland], June 3 (ANI/Sputnik): A suspicious coronavirus variant detected in Vietnam is part of the existing Delta strain and not a new hybrid mutation, a World Health Organization official

HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 250 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 231 locally transmitted and 19 imported, raising the total tally to 8,063, according to the country's Minist

Beijing [China], June 3 (ANI): China has said that it has conveyed to Malaysia that a flight of 16 Chinese military planes over hotly contested waters in the South China Sea was a "routine training" a

A coronavirus variant that Vietnamese authorities thought was a combination of the Indian and UK strains is not a new hybrid but part of the existing Indian strain, the World Health Organization's

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be taking its toll on countries across Southeast Asia, but that hasn't stopped wildlife traffickers from trying to smuggle endangered and "exotic" species across