WASHINGTON - A U.S. warship and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia cracked down on 198 human trafficking and sexual exploitation cases in the first six months of 2021, a remarkable rise from only 63 cases over the same period last year, a senior official said on Friday. Some ...

© Provided by Xinhua It was a demonstration of typical American hypocrisy. While promising Afghans peace and stability, Washington actually created chaos and disturbance. If it tries to play the same trick in Southeast Asia, Washington will only fin...

HANOI, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported a new high of 12,920 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, surpassing the previous record of 12,096 on Wednesday, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections included 12,901 locally transmitte...

CANBERRA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Mathew Leckie, captain of the Australian men's soccer team, has announced that he will withdraw from the team. The decision was reported by The Sydney Morning Herald on Friday, less than a week before the match against C...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 Delta variant cases in Cambodia has surged to 1,534 after 209 new ones were detected, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement on Friday. Some 75 new cases have been found in th...

HANOI, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in Vietnam on Thursday released a statement refuting U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' verbal attacks on China during her visit to Vietnam. Harris instigated Southeast Asian countries to join the United...

© Provided by Xinhua PHNOM PENH, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 10.07 million people, or 63 percent of the Southeast Asian nation's 16-million population

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopia registered 1,621 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 301,713 as of Thurs...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris raised human rights issues with Vietnamese leaders during a visit aimed at bolstering strategic ties with the country, she said in Hanoi on Thursday.Harris said she specifically discussed the release of political dis...

HANOI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 11,575 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 11,569 locally transmitted and six imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 392,938, with 9,667...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 10.07 million people, or 63 percent of the Southeast Asian nation's 16-million population, officials said on Thursday. Of them, 8.13 million have comp...

A new study from market research firm Finder shows that Asian countries are outpacing the rest of the globe when it comes to cryptocurrency ownership. In India, the number of crypto users passed 15 million in June.The country ranked second in terms o...

SHANGHAI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese men's football team of 31 players boarded a chartered flight bound for Doha, Qatar earlier on Thursday, not knowing the date of return. China took a large squad to Doha where they will be joined by Espanyol strik...