BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - ULAN BATOR -- Mongolia reported 3,361 more COVID-19 cases and 13 new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total caseload to 28...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Lao Ministry of Health on Thursday recorded 666 local COVID-19 transmissions, the highest daily infection ever reported in the country. Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao M...

© Provided by Xinhua With the COVID-19 lingering around, Lao people are proactively following the government's order in tightening COVID-19 restrictions in Lao capital Vientiane.by Chanthaphaphone Mixayboua, Zhang JianhuaVIENTI

New York [US], September 23 (ANI): As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten lives and livelihoods globally, Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that his nation is "vigorously" combating the virus, protec...

KATHMANDU -- Narayan Khadka, a member of the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee, was appointed the minister for foreign affairs of Nepal on Wednesday. Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari, on the recommendation of the five-party government hea...

HANOI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 11,527 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 11,525 locally transmitted and two imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 718,963...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- State-owned Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC) on Wednesday launched a 50-million-U.S. dollar Co-Financing Guarantee Scheme (CFGS), aiming at supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The CFGS is a ...

by Chanthaphaphone Mixayboua, Zhang Jianhua VIENTIANE, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Lao people are proactively following the government's order in tightening COVID-19 restrictions in Lao capital Vientiane. Vientiane's administration has imposed ban on all tr...

SHARJAH, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese men's football team has been hit by a spate of injuries as they are training hard to prepare for their next FIFA World Cup qualifier against Vietnam. Defender Wang Gang was the latest addition to the Chinese team...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The foreign ministers of Iran and Vietnam weighed plans for the promotion of relations between the two Asian countries in various fields. - Politics news - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Vietnamese counte...

HANOI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- A chain-reaction crash between four motorcycles in northern Vietnam's Phu Tho province has killed five people and severely injured two others, local media reported Wednesday. The motorbikes carrying eight young people were...

HANOI -- Vietnam reported 11,692 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 11,687 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 707,436, with 17,545 deaths...

HANOI, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 11,692 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 11,687 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the country's total tally to 707,436,...

An officer who accompanied CIA chief William Burns during his trip to India earlier this month suffered symptoms consistent with Havana syndrome, a mysterious sickness affecting US officials since 2016, CNN reported.An unnamed CIA officer required me...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Tuesday praised the kingdom's hard-won peace, saying that it is the foremost prerequisite for national development. In a massage to mark the International Day of Peace...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday confirmed 628 new COVID-19 cases, of which 121 were imported, lifting the national total caseload to 105,344, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Seventeen more fatalities had been re...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Environment (MoE)'s and World Wildlife Fund (WWF)'s research team has discovered eight hatchlings of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile in northeastern Mondulkiri province for the first ...

© Provided by Xinhua Cambodia has 64.4 percent of its 16 million population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, raising hope for a return to normal life in the near future.PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at l

Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN's intellectual property agency said in a new report published on Monday.According to the findings of the World Intellect...

MANILA -- The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) reported 18,937 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,385,616. The DOH also reported 146 coronavirus-related deaths, r...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 12.05 million people, or 75.3 percent of the kingdom's 16-million population, raising hope for a return to normal life in the near future, officials ...

HANOI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 8,681 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the lowest daily number posted in over a month, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections included 8,668 locally transmitted and 13 imported, bri...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 12.05 million people, or 75.3 percent of the kingdom's 16-million population, officials and experts said on Monday. Of them, 10.3 million, or 64.4 pe...

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...