BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday met with Lao Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith via video link. Wang said the two sides have helped each other in the fight against the pandemic and celeb...

TOKYO -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will dispatch a team of experts to Japan's Fukushima Prefecture in December to review the country's plan to dump radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the sea, an IAEA o...

© Provided by Xinhua The National Assembly of Cambodia ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) which comprises 15 Asia-Pacific countries and the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with China to boost trade and investment.

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- All secondary and high schools in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, are set for reopening next week as the country has achieved a high COVID-19 vaccination rate, an official statement said on Thursday. "The Phnom Penh M...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the Southeast Asian nation and China. Ninety-two lawmakers, who were present during the parliamentary session, una...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade agreement (FTA), which comprises 15 Asia-Pacific countries. Ninety-three law...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 2,007 on Thursday after 20 new fatalities were reported, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. The kingdom also confirmed 589 new infections including 148 im...

HANOI, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 12,420 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 12,399 locally transmitted and 21 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 576,096, w...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The total number of Delta variant cases in Cambodia has jumped to 3,323 after 669 new ones were reported, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement on Thursday. A total of 1,113 cases have been detected in the c...

Tokyo [Japan], September 9 (ANI): The US Navy sailed a warship near the disputed South China Sea on Wednesday for the first time since Beijing began implementing a law requiring foreign vessels to give notice before entering waters it claims, local m...

BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese team, once brimming with confidence to face top Asian teams before the third stage of Asia FIFA World Cup qualification started, has been brought down to earth after losing to Australia and Japan in their firs...

Since the September 11 terror attacks, there has been no hiding from the increased militarisation of the United States. Everyday life is suffused with policing and surveillance. This ranges from the inconvenient, such as removing shoes at the airport...

HANOI, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 12,680 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 12,663 locally transmitted and 17 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 563,676, ...

Kabul [Afghanistan], September 8 (ANI): China is eyeing the former US airbase of Bagram in Afghanistan in order to expand its influence in the region and embarrass America. Paul D Shinkman, writing in US News said that China has secured friendly rela...

DOHA, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese ace forward Wu Lei saw a telling contrast between Chinese and Japanese football at the Doha airport on Wednesday, one day after China lost to Japan 1-0 in a World Cup qualifier. The Espanyol striker, the only oversea...

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 33,096,718 on Wednesday, as 37,875 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours ac...

TOKYO -- Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9 percent from April to June, increased from the preliminary growth of 1.3 percent, reflecting stronger capital investment in areas such as digitalization, government data showed Wednesday. Real gr...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Pharmaceutical producers in Laos are to begin the production of herbal treatments for COVID-19 in capsule form. Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Rattan...

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results of the Asian 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Tuesday (home team first): Group A South Korea 1 Lebanon 0 Syria 1 United Arab Emirates 1 Iraq 0 Iran 3 Group B Vietnam 0 Australia 1 Chin...