VIENTIANE, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Lao Ministry of Health said the COVID-19 variant that was spreading through the capital Vientiane is the Delta Plus variant. Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry...

Singapore, September 20 (ANI): Water management is among the top environmental risks for countries and sectors in Asia, according to Moody's Investors Service. Of 25 economies in the region, it identified 10 that have highly negative or very highly n...

SHARJAH, UAE, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese international forward Zhang Yuning said on Sunday that he is very confident that China will beat Vietnam in its next FIFA World Cup qualifier as his team have been preparing the game in Sharjah, the UAE with...

Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it's expected t...

HANOI, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 10,040 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 10,025 locally transmitted and 15 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 687,063, wi...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Lao capital Vientiane's administration has imposed a ban on all travels to and from Vientiane and within four major districts of the capital city from Sunday to September 30, 2021. The four prohibited districts are Cha...

HANOI, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 9,373 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 9,360 locally transmitted and 13 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 677,023, wi...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's garment industry has seen a 3.3-percent increase in exports during the first eight months of 2021, a report from the Ministry of Commerce showed on Saturday. The Southeast Asian nation exported the products...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Lao capital Vientiane on Saturday recorded 264 local COVID-19 transmissions, the highest daily infection ever recorded in the city. Laos has logged a total of 467 new cases over the past 24 hours including 383 local tr...

© Provided by Xinhua Cambodia has almost 1.9 million children in the age group of 6-12. So far, some 98 percent of adults and around 87 percent of adolescents in the country have received at least one shot of the vaccine.

© Provided by Xinhua Xiao Qianwen, the LCRC general manager, told Xinhua on Friday that the Chinese engineers have welded the seamless rails across all the 75 tunnels, 165 bridges and 20 railway stations since May 2020.According to Xiao, most p

Two important global events are coming up that are widely hoped to help address what the United Nations calls the "dual challenge" - fighting climate change and ensuring that poorer countries can develop sustainably. Energy is a central theme in both...

HANOI -- Vietnam reported 11,521 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 11,506 locally transmitted and 15 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 667,650, with 16,637 deaths, t...

Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): The US and Australia expressed concerns regarding China's expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea and called on Beijing to implement relevant domestic legislation, including the Maritime Traffic Safety La...

HANOI, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 11,521 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 11,506 locally transmitted and 15 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 667,650, wi...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group (CREC-2) has welded the last two 500-meter seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in the southern suburb of the Lao capital Vientiane. The seamless rail, also known as continuou...

Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], September 17 (ANI/PRNewswire): KC Overseas Education, a renowned brand in the overseas education sector, has partnered with Air Canada, the largest domestic and international Canadian airline, to offer discounted air tra...

BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - ADDIS ABABA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,096,504 as of Thursday afternoon, the Africa Centers for ...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's COVID-19 total cases have climbed to 102,136 on Thursday after 693 fresh infections were reported across the country, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. According to the MoH, the new infectio...

Two important events hosted by the United Nations are coming up that are widely hoped to help address what the U.N. calls the "dual challenge" - fighting climate change and ensuring that poorer countries can develop sustainably. Energy is a central t...

HANOI, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 10,489 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 10,482 locally transmitted and seven imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 656,12...