PHNOM PENH, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia inaugurated a China-funded national stadium in the northern suburbs of the capital Phnom Penh on Saturday with a sports parade, martial arts, and traditional dances. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun ...

New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Dr Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Biotech along with Suchitra Ella Joint Managing Director, Bharat Biotech, met Professor, Dr Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health, Government of the Soc...

KUNMING, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province reported strong trade growth in the first 11 months of this year. Yunnan's foreign trade totaled 274.3 billion yuan (about 43 billion U.S. dollars) from January to November, up 18.9 perce...

New York [US], December 18 (ANI): Authorities in Vietnam must immediately release four activists jailed this week for spreading anti-State propaganda, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday. Over a three-day period, prominent human rights ...

Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch.Afghanistan's economyU.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths appealed for flexible and sustained international funding befor...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Ties between Vietnam and India are based on Hanoi's cultural values of patriotism and compassion and New Delhi's philosophy of equality, peace and humanism, springing from Buddhism and Hinduism, according to Viet...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Foreign Minister Jaishankar presented a photograph of former Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh to country's National Assembly President Vuong Dinh. "Presented a photograph of President Ho Chi Minh at Sapru house in 1...

TOKYO -- At least 24 people have been confirmed dead from a fire that broke out in a medical clinic in Japan's Osaka prefecture on Friday, the police said, adding that they are investigating the incident as a suspected arson. The fire broke out withi...

KAMPONG CHHNANG, Cambodia, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Friday broke ground on a China-aided shooting range at the Royal Gendarmerie Training Center here. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh and Chinese ambassador to...

HANOI, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,236 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 15,215 locally transmitted and 21 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, including 1,...

New Delhi (India), December 17 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that the trade between India and Vietnam have crossed the mark of 10 billion US dollars in 2020 and it is likely to exceed 10 billion this year. "Our trade ha...

New Delhi (India), December 17 (ANI): Asserting that India's Act East policy is a guiding partner and helped in the larger Indo-Pacific approach, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that from the Indian perspective, Vietnam is a key...

NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 34,726,049 on Friday, as 7,447 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 391 deaths from the pandemic since Thursday m...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): A Parliamentary delegation from Vietnam led by the chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue called on Vice President Venkaiah Naidu here on Friday. "A Parliamentary delegation from the Socialist Republic ...

New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Hyderabad-based biotechnology company Bharat Biotech on Thursday announced that it will donate two lakh doses of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin to Vietnam. The announcement was made by Bharat Biotech Joint Managing...

New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): A Parliamentary delegation led by the Chairman of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue, called on Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday. Noting that the visit of Prime Minister Narendra ...

HANOI, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,270 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 15,267 locally transmitted and three imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, includi...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Lao government Thursday announced a plan to reopen for visitors starting from Jan. 1, 2022, according to a notice issued by the Prime Minister's Office. The notice, which was signed by Head of the Prime Minister's Offic...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Laos recorded a trade deficit of 336 million U.S. dollars in the first 11 months of 2021, according to the latest information from the Lao Trade Portal website. The value of exports was recorded at 4.9 billion dollars (...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Lao economy is projected to grow by 4.2 percent in 2022, driven by commercial production for exports and opportunities and benefits arising from the China-Laos Railway. The rail link, which became operational recent...

A lawyer for Vietnamese author and journalist Pham Doan Trang has described as tense the one-day trial that resulted in a nine-year sentence for Trang on Tuesday.The award-winning journalist was convicted of "spreading anti-state propaganda" under Ar...

BRUSSELS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- In the Belgian city of Bruges, 23 people went on trial on Wednesday suspected of involvement in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in 2019, Belgian media reported. The bodies of the 39 migrants were discovered on Oct. ...

Tokyo [Japan], December 15 (ANI): Japan and the United States have decided to hold a meeting of their foreign and defence ministers in Washington on January 7 to discuss major security issues, local media reported citing officials on Wednesday. Forei...

NANNING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Experts in attendance at a think tank forum called on China and ASEAN to strengthen cooperation to better make use of the opportunities brought by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. The 13th...

HANOI, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,527 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 15,522 locally transmitted and five imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, includi...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The rollout of large-scale development projects is making good progress, with the opening of the China-Laos railway being the most noteworthy success, Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone said. Speaking at a meeting...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Wednesday that he would name the country's Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn as the ASEAN chair's new special envoy to Myanmar. Cambodia will be the chair of the Associat...

© Provided by Xinhua VIENTIANE, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Welcome aboard the train of China-Laos Railway! The cross-border railway, a flagship project within the framework of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been put into operation. Let's follo...

© Provided by Xinhua "Angkor Thanksgiving" was to mark the 29th anniversary of the inscription of the Angkor Archeological Park in the UNESCO's World Heritage List on Dec. 14, 1992.PHNOM PENH, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday h

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has identified the first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, a traveler from the western African country of Ghana, the country's ministry of health announced in a press statement Tuesday midnight. "A 23-year...

TOKYO -- Japan's Digital Agency said on Tuesday that it will initiate an application software enabling visitors and returnees to go through simpler customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) procedures from next week. The "Visit Japan Web" service, sl...

BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has expanded the paths leading to the diversification of democracy and made major contributions to new developments in global democracy, a number of political parties a...

HANOI, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,220 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 15,203 locally transmitted and 17 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, including 1...

HANOI, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 38,700 units of automobile were sold in the Vietnamese market in November, up 30 percent against October and 6 percent on year, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association on Tuesday. People's deman...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Tuesday held a religious ceremony in front of the famed Angkor Wat in northwestern Siem Reap province to officially begin the event of "Angkor Thanksgiving". Organized by the APSARA National Authority (ANA), the ceremony too...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the United States would work with allies to defend and promote a free and open Indo-Pacific region.Speaking during a visit to Indonesia, Blinken said the greatest strength against evolving threats i...

WASHINGTON D.C.: Citing deepening Chinese military influence, corruption and human rights abuses by the government and armed forces, the U.S. has ordered an arms embargo on Cambodia.The added restrictions on defense-related goods and services, issued...

Hong Kong, December 14 (ANI): There are recurring claims that China is building, or attempting to create, a string of military bases around the world. To date, only one has been officially confirmed, but that is doing nothing to reduce speculation th...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 14 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam confirmed 15,377 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health. The capital city of Hanoi took the lead with 1,000 new cases. This is the first time Hanoi's daily transmissi...

Taipei [Taiwan], December 14 (ANI): Taiwan's Defense Ministry report has warned that China may deploy forces near the island nation on the pretext of conducting drills, and then use them for a genuine invasion. The report submitted to the Taiwanese l...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Jakarta on a 48-hour visit that includes talks with leaders about U.S.-Indonesia collaboration as well as a speech about the Biden administration's wider policy aims for the region.Blinken met Monday with ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 150,000 students from 9th and 12th grades in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the country's largest COVID-19 hotspot, returned to school on Monday after a long time of learning online due to pan...

HANOI, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,377 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 15,349 locally transmitted and 28 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi logged the record high number of 1,000 cases, fol...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Monday received another batch of 300,000 doses of Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX Facility, a senior health official said. Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) Secretary of State Yok Sambath said a flig...