VIENTIANE, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The public and private sectors are making plans to reopen Laos to fully vaccinated tourists in 2022, and details regarding quarantine upon entry are still being debated. The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism o...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States has fought a lot of wars and is said to have only had less than 20 years of peace in its history. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter described the United States as "the most warlike nation in the histo...

WASHINGTON/GENEVA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Open any book on American history, and hardly can you find a long period of time when the country was not part of a conflict. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter simply referred to it as "the most warlike nation i...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The body of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh was cremated on Wednesday in an elaborate Buddhist ceremony at a park next to the Royal Palace in the capital of Phnom Penh. Ranariddh, president of Funcinpec Party and ch...

by Xu Chi GENEVA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States has not learned the proper lesson from its failed wars, Richard Falk, emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University, told Xinhua in a recent interview via video link. Falk had f...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 8 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam recorded 13,840 cases of COVID-19 in 59 localities on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health. Ho Chi Minh city continued to report the highest number of infections with 965, followed by Can Th...

The surprise Japanese attack on the US fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was a tactical victory but a strategic defeat, clearing the way for US entry into WWII. History teaches that it was inevitable, but was it?Over 2,400 Americans ...

JAKARTA -- The death toll in the eruption of Semeru volcano in Lumajang district, Indonesia's East Java province, rose to 34 as of Tuesday afternoon, while 16 others are still under search, an official said. Four evacuation teams are currently carryi...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday met with visiting Myanmar's Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin, discussing bilateral cooperation and ASEAN issues, said a Cambodian foreign m...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 13,840 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 13,835 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern locali...

HANOI, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 13,840 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 13,835 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen will visit Myanmar on Jan. 7 and 8, his personal spokesman said here on Tuesday. Myanmar's foreign minister U Wunna Maung Lwin brought an invitation letter from Commander-i...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 7 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Hanoi plans to ban motorbikes in core districts after 2025, five years earlier than an earlier plan, in order to reduce traffic congestion and emissions. The ban will apply to all districts within the third...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) --Cambodia on Monday inaugurated a Chinese-built 96.5-km-long and 11-meter-wide National Road No. 11, linking Prey Veng and Tboung Khmum provinces in the country's southeastern region.The road was developed by China Road a...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Cambodia has lifted an entry ban for passengers arriving from 10 African countries, introduced to prevent the spread of the novel Omicron coronavirus variant, the regional online-media Khmer Times repo...

HANOI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 14,591 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, including 14,558 locally transmitted and 33 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, ...

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported five new imported cases of COVID-19 on Monday, taking the total tally to 12,466. The newly reported cases all involved mutant strains. A total of 60 cases have been reported in the ...

HANOI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Border guard forces of northern Vietnam's Dien Bien province have arrested a drug trafficker and seized 120,000 pills of synthetic drugs, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday. Specifically, the authorities caught red-handed a...

PREY VENG, Cambodia, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday inaugurated a Chinese-built 96.5-km-long and 11-meter-wide National Road No. 11, linking Prey Veng and Tboung Khmum provinces in the country's southeastern region. The road was developed by C...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday he plans to visit Myanmar for talks with its military rulers and said junta officials should be invited to meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.Myanmar's standing as a me...

© Provided by Xinhua Lectured via video link by professors and technicians of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences in south China's Hainan province, a week-long course gathered more than 50 Cambodian agriculture students with standa...

"Pacific Ablaze" read Australian papers on December 8 1941, as the world learned about the monumental events that unfolded only hours before. Japan had simultaneously declared war against the United States and Great Britain, then immediately launched...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Sunday removed its ban on travelers from 10 African countries after a nearly one-week suspension due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said. With the approval from Prime Minister Samdech Techo H...

DAMASCUS -- Explosions were heard Sunday inside a U.S. military base in the al-Tanf area in southeastern Syria, state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosions occurred after U.S. helicopters flew in the a...

KUNMING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- A train carrying 33 refrigerated containers left Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, for Laos Saturday.It is the first train involved in cold-chain logistics on the 1,035-km China-Laos Railway, a landmar...

HANOI, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's economy is estimated to lose some 37 billion U.S. dollars due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of this year, according to an official on Sunday. Nguyen Thanh Phong, deputy head of the Economic Commission under t...

HANOI, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,314 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 14,312 locally transmitted and two imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including 1,...

© Provided by Xinhua SHANGHAI, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Raised in a remote village in Laos, La Thor had never seen a train or railway track in his childhood, nor did it occur to him that he would become a railway operations maintainer someday.On Friday, t...

SHANGHAI, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Raised in a remote village in Laos, La Thor had never seen a train or railway track in his childhood, nor did it occur to him that he would become a railway operations maintainer someday. On Friday, the China-Laos Railway...

CHENGDU, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Two freight trains departed from cities of Chengdu and Chongqing in southwest China respectively on Saturday, which marks the opening of a new cross-border logistics route of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.C...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The body of Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh arrived in Cambodia from France on Sunday for a traditional funeral, a spokesman said. Ranariddh, president of Funcinpec Party and chairman of the Supreme Privy Advisory Co...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The first China-Laos Railway international freight train from Kunming of southwest China's Yunnan Province arrived in Lao capital Vientiane on Saturday night. At 11:10 p.m. local time on Saturday, the train fully loaded ...

BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, attended the opening ceremony of the China-Laos Railway with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao Pe...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, attended the opening ceremony of the China-Laos Railway with Thongloun Sisoulith, general s...

HANOI, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 13,998 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 13,993 locally transmitted and five imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including...

© Provided by Xinhua MENGLA, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The first cargo train of the China-Laos Railway bound for Laos arrived at the Mohan railway port on Saturday morning and passed through the cross-border friendship tunnel.The China-Laos Railway, a land...

KUNMING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- A train carrying 33 refrigerated containers left Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, for Laos Saturday. It is the first train involved in cold-chain logistics on the 1,035-km China-Laos Railway, a landma...

Beijing [China], December 4 (ANI): Chinese companies are exploiting workers overseas with multiple reports of violations pouring in from areas including Laos, where workers who were hired for construction projects, undertaken six years ago are still ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday that no major U.S. trading partner manipulated the rate of exchange between its currency and the U.S. dollar. In its semiannual Report to Congress: Macroeconomic and Foreign E...

BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Following are news items about China to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Saturday: Wire Service: -- Xi Focus-Closeup: The president's oath to the Constitution -- China issues white paper on its democracy -- Xinhua Headli...

Vientiane [Laos], December 3 (ANI): Laos has opened a USD 6 billion Chinese-built railway on Friday, the biggest public works project in its history, which analysts warn could expose the poor south-east Asian country to financial risk or political co...

BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, attended the opening ceremony of the China-Laos Railway with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao Pe...

HANGZHOU, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- China and Laos have pledged to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, further promote China-Laos relations and better benefit the two countries and peoples. The pledge was made duri...

HANOI, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 13,670 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 13,661 locally transmitted and nine imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The localities logging the highest number of infections included the southern...

COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's Health Ministry on Friday said the country had detected its first patient infected with the Omicron variant of the COVID-19. The Health Promotion Bureau of the Health Ministry said that a man who had recently returned from Nige...

BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, met with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (PRP) Central Committee and Lao...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, and Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Commit...

KUNMING/VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway, a landmark project of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, started operation on Friday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese presi...

KUNMING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway, which starts operations on Friday, is another example of the friendly cooperation between China and other countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and is bound to become a path to prosper...

KUNMING/VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), started operation on Friday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president...

BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, and Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president,...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Friday exchanged congratulations on the opening of the China-Laos Railway.In the congratulatory messages, they stressed the two ...

by Zhang Jianhua VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The first cargo train of the China-Laos Railway bound for China left here on Friday afternoon soon after the railway was officially inaugurated. POTASH & RUBBER Among the cargo loaded on the train are po...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed sympathy with Vietnam on the deaths in a floods and landslides in the Southeast Asia nation. - Politics news - In a message on Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson ...

© Provided by Xinhua VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The first train of the China-Laos Railway left here on Friday afternoon soon after the cross-border railway is officially put into operation.Among the cargo loaded on the train

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Farmers in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province have expressed concerns over drought, saying the current drought and water shortage to irrigate their farmlands would badly affect their harvests. In a meeting held in the provi...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The first train of the China-Laos Railway bound for China left here on Friday afternoon soon after the railway was officially put into operation. Among the cargo loaded on the train are potash products manufactured by a ...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway, a flagship project within the framework of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), was put into operation on Friday. The cross-border railway will be a game-changer for the development of Laos. Fo...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- The first train of the China-Laos Railway left here on Friday afternoon soon after the cross-border railway is officially put into operation. Among the cargo loaded on the train are potash products manufactured by a Chin...

by Phouthaphone Sirivong, Zhang Jianhua VIENTIANE, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Counting down the days to the official opening of the China-Laos Railway, 22-year-old Sida Phengphongsawanh was brimming with excitement as an aspiring train driver and a witness t...