The fast-spreading delta variant has thrown into turmoil factories and ports in Asian countries that were once among the most successful containing the virus.In China, the world's third-busiest container port was partly shut recently, while in Southe...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The total number of COVID-19 cases in Laos has risen to 10,092 on Sunday after 198 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to Lao Ministry of Health. Deputy Director General of the Department of Communic...

KUNMING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- All of the 10 tunnels on the Mile-Mengzi high-speed railway in southwest China's Yunnan Province have been drilled through, laying the foundation for the railway's opening next year. The Dazhuang Tunnel, the last tunnel o...

BEIJING, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - MOSCOW -- Russia registered 22,144 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours as the Delta variant continues to spread, taking the...

© Provided by Xinhua "It's reasonable for all parties to respect facts and science, and jointly reject political manipulation of vilification under the pretext of origin-tracing, so as to create a favorable environment for global cooperati

HANOI, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported a new high of 9,716 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, surpassing the previous record of 9,690 cases on Aug. 8, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections, including 9,710 locally transm...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani delivered a televised address on Saturday in a bid to rally troops defending Kabul as the Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.Ghani...

Afghan Taliban has tightened their hold around Kabul just as refugees flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.Initially, the US discussed the deployment of 3 000 troops to Afghanistan to help to evacuate US embass...

© Provided by Xinhua Politicizing origin tracing is inhumane, and scientists from all countries must work together to find out why the disease occurred in the first place, said the Lao Prime Minister.VIENTIANE, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) --

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Saturday reported a daily record of 598 COVID-19 cases, in which 187 were imported, pushing the national total caseload to 84,860, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Twelve more fatalities ha...

The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the insurgents' relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.With the country's second- and th...

As headlines proclaim the "end" of "America's longest war," President Joe Biden's withdrawal of the remaining U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan is being covered by some in the news media as though it means the end of the conflict - or eve