VIENTIANE, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A total of 60 people were killed and 642 injured in road accidents across Laos in July, according to the latest report from the Lao Ministry of Public Security. According to the report issued by the traffic police depar...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently gave reporters in Canberra a "lesson" in what kinds of protest he thinks work best.Last week, he condemned Extinction Rebellion protesters who sprayed graff

HANOI, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported a new high of 10,654 COVID-19 cases on Thursday, smashing the previous record of 9,716 cases on Aug. 14, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections, including 10,639 locally transmitt...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Blame game has intensified in Washington as the While House is scrambling to contain the fallout of a humiliating end to the 20-year war in Afghanistan and Republicans are sparing no efforts to exploit President Joe Bi...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing lockdown in Laos will be extended for 15 more days till Sept. 2 as the COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office Thipphakone Chanthavongsa told a press conference in Lao ca...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- A house fire in southern Vietnam's Binh Duong province has killed five members of a family, local authorities said Thursday. The fire broke out at the house, which was also a grocery store, in Binh Duong's Di An city late Wednesda...

OTTAWA, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Canada's annual pace of inflation hit 3.7 percent in July, the biggest increase since May 2011, according to Statistics Canada on Wednesday. The 3.7 percent inflation rate is higher than the 3.1 percent in June, and also m...

© Provided by Xinhua Biden criticized Trump for empowering the Taliban and leaving them "in the strongest position militarily since 2001." Trump responded with a statement that Biden had "ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Admi...

© Provided by Xinhua China's national football team has begun a training camp in Shanghai to prepare for the final round of the FIFA 20222 World Cup qualifiers.SHANGHAI, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's national football team started a tra

HANOI, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 8,800 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, including 8,788 local infections and 12 imported cases, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 302,101, with 6,770 dea...

© Provided by Xinhua Richard Haass, president of U.S. think tank Council on Foreign Relations, wrote on Twitter that he believes "the grim aftermath of America's strategic and moral failure will reinforce questions about U.S. reliability among frien...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 9.15 million people, or 57 percent of the kingdom's 16-million population so far, Ministry of Health's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine s...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The White House is finding itself in a new crisis after a botched withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, overwhelmed by withering criticism from home and abroad. A viral video clip shows a crowd of Afghans running ...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Laos recorded a trade deficit of 99 million U.S. dollars in July 2021, according to the country's trade portal website. Laos' exports during July were worth 374 million U.S. dollars, while the value of imports was 473 m...

Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): After the fall of Afghanistan to Taliban, many drew parallels with the situation in Vietnam from half a century ago in which the US war collapsed into ultimate ruin. Social media was abuzz with a photograph of a sing...

The Australian Government needs to show compassion and be flexible towards asylum seekers fleeing Afghanistan, writes Dr Claire Higgins.JUST HOURS AFTER the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Australia joined the international community in

Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): A classified assessment by American spy agencies had predicted the collapse of the Afghan military and Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, despite US President Joe Biden's assurances that Kabul was unlikely to fall acco...

© Provided by Xinhua The China-funded national stadium with 60,000 seats will serve as the main venue for tournaments when Cambodia hosts the Southeast Asian Games in 2023.PHNOM PENH, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Construction work on a China-f

In Afghanistan, American hubris - the United States' capacity for self-delusion and officia

WASHINGTON - Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely - in some cases without a shot fired - that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliba...

MONDAY AFTER the Tokyo Olympics ended, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was quick to claim credit for the country's best Olympic performance yet, saying that it was "no coincidence" that it happened during the Duterte administration.On one hand,...