The United States said Monday that Myanmar's junta was playing for time with a two-year election timeframe as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to encourage ASEAN to appoint an envoy.Blinken is participating virtually in a week of talks...

HANOI, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 7,455 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 7,445 locally transmitted and 10 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 161,761 with 1,695 deaths...

SEOUL -- South Korea's defense ministry said Monday that no decision had been made yet over the joint annual military exercise with the United States this summer. Boo Seung-chan, defense ministry spokesman, told an online press briefing that nothing ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three Cambodian dogs had been successfully trained to sniff out COVID-19, Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) Heng Ratana said on Monday. The dogs had been trained with scent samples, known as Vo...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday confirmed a daily record of 560 COVID-19 infections including 169 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 78,474 so far, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Twenty-two mor...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) on Monday reported 109 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant, raising the kingdom's total number of the Delta variant cases to 223. On July 31 and Aug. 1, laboratory testing by the ...

HANOI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 8,620 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 8,597 locally transmitted and 23 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 154,306, with at least 1,306 deaths...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Sunday that the kingdom's first-ever oil extraction had come to a full stop after Singapore-based oil and gas firm KrisEnergy had filed for liquidation. KrisEnergy...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Sunday lowered the kingdom's economic growth forecast to 2.5 percent in 2021 from its earlier projection of 4.1 percent, due to the COVID-19. The economy in the Southeas...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A plane carrying a new batch of China-donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine touched down in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on Sunday, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said. A new batch of vaccine arrived on...

More than 200 employees at two major hospitals in San Francisco, in the western U.S. state of California, have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a report Saturday in The New York Times.Most of the staff members at Zuckerberg San Franc...

U.S. politicians are seeking to restrict Chinese purchases of American farmland amid fears that such purchases - while so far affecting a miniscule share of U.S. agricultural land - could ultimately pose a threat to the U.S. food supply chain.The Hou...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet virtually with Southeast Asian officials every day next week, a senior state department official said Saturday, as Washington seeks to show the region it's a U.S. priority while also addre...