Naypyitaw [Myanmar], January 8 (ANI): Myanmar's military leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has reportedly agreed to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) peace effort in the country. Hlaing made the pledge in a joint statemen...

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Hun Sen, the Prime Minister of Cambodia, has arrived in Myanmar for a meeting with coup leader Min Aung Hlaing, despite demonstrations in Myanmar and criticism from civil rights groups over the trip. This is the first by a foreig...

HANOI, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,278 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 16,254 locally transmitted and 24 imported, according to its ministry of health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of i...

New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): Eurosport India and Jio TV Network have acquired the broadcast rights for AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022, which will take place from January 20 to February 6. Eurosport India will telecast the tournament on telev...

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national football team will start a 52-man training camp in Shanghai next Tuesday for the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Japan and Vietnam. RCD Espanyol striker Wu Lei and five naturalized players are am...

© Provided by Xinhua Min Aung Hlaing and Hun Sen would hold a bilateral meeting to discuss and exchange views on matters including the promotion of bilateral relations and cooperation.YANGON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Ministe

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia reported 3,504 cases of malaria in 2021, a 57 percent drop from 8,222 in 2020, a health official said on Friday. "Among the reported cases, there have been no any deaths," Huy Rekol, director of the National Ce...

CHANGSHA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos freight train service linking Huaihua City of central China's Hunan Province and Lao capital Vientiane kicked off operation on Thursday, opening a new shortcut from Hunan to ASEAN countries. The first outbo...

BANGKOK - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is visiting Myanmar on what he says is a trip meant to restore peace after a Feb. 1 military takeover but that critics say will just legitimize the army's seizure of power.Live video on Hun Sen's official Fa...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is preparing to place three prefectures here under a quasi-state of emergency on Friday amid a spike in COVID-19 cases stemming from U.S. military personnel based in the prefectures spreading the virus. ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will start a visit to Myanmar on Friday for talks with its military rulers, triggering protests across the conflict-torn nation by coup opponents who fear his trip will provide more legitimacy t...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Laos has detected its first case of Omicron variant of COVID-19, the National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control announced Thursday. Director-general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control...

HANOI, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,472 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, including 16,417 locally transmitted and 55 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the high...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Construction of a new international airport in northern Laos' Bokeo province is nearing completion and the airport is scheduled to be opened for use by March 2022. Lao National Radio on Wednesday quoting Deputy Governor ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Apsara National Authority (ANA) said Thursday it has been working to consolidate the central tower of Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat, which is also known as the Bakan tower. Hourn Sokcheat, technical officer of ...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been accused of "going rogue" on the eve of his two-day trip to Myanmar starting Friday, where he says fruitful talks with the junta could end the bloodshed that erupted almost 12 months ago when the ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia had reported only 1,903 dengue fever cases in 2021, a sharp decrease compared to 2020 when some 11,977 cases were recorded, a health official said on Thursday. Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted throug...

China is renaming disputed locations in Asia to bolster its territorial claims and build evidence to support those claims in case any sovereignty disagreements land in court, experts say.Beijing has used new names and other map coding to back its cla...

SYDNEY -- Australia marked 2021 as its coldest year in almost a decade after the La Nina phenomenon caused wetter and cooler conditions across the country. The Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday that summary and contextual information regarding t...

HANOI, VIETNAM - The Dec. 14 sentencing of Vietnamese journalist Pham Thi Doan Trang, commonly known as Pham Doan Trang, to nine years in prison for "spreading anti-state propaganda" has angered members of the public here as well as observers outside...

© Provided by Xinhua KUNMING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway had operated 116 cargo trains via Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, as of Jan. 3, which transported more than 49,800 tonnes of goods worth about 676 million yuan (106 ...

ISLAMABAD -- Two soldiers and two terrorists were killed in clashes between security forces and militants in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an army statement said Wednesday night. The troops conducted intelligence-based operations ...

HANOI -- Vietnam reported 17,017 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 16,997 locally transmitted and 20 imported, according to the health ministry. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of infections with 2,...

HANOI, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 17,017 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 16,997 locally transmitted and 20 imported, according to the health ministry. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of i...

The UN Security Council already has five new non-permanent members, namely Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates. They officially took office yesterday after being elected in June.The mandates of Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The confirmed cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Cambodia have risen to 94 after nine new infections were detected, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said here on Wednesday. "Nine new Omicron cases were confirme...

SINGAPORE -- China will provide an anchor mechanism for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade pact which came into force on Jan. 1, a Singaporean scholar said recently. As the world's second largest ec...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway has yielded fruitful outcomes in passenger and cargo transportation since it launched operations a month ago, marking a major step forward for regional connectivity and economic...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's anti-drug police have arrested a Vietnamese man for allegedly trafficking, storing and processing over 181 kg of illicit drugs, a Phnom Penh Municipal police spokesman said on Tuesday. Luu Tung Huy, 25, was c...

SAN FRANCISCO - China's economy will increasingly rely on state investment, high-tech development and domestic consumption - with less input from its past staple of export manufacturing - as it stands to overtake the United States in the coming decad...

HANOI, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,861 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 14,829 locally transmitted and 32 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with highest number of infe...

The Bolsheviks sought to erase all street names associated with the tsarist regime and started to rename places in order to commemorate leading communist officials and heroes. That's how many cities got streets named not only after Lenin, but also af...

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- China-Laos Railway, which opened to traffic a month ago, has handled about 670,000 passengers and 170,000 tonnes of cargo, the Chinese railway operator said Monday. For the section in China, the railway has handled up to 3...

HANOI, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,936 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 15,916 locally transmitted and 20 imported infections, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the highest number of infectio...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government got 5.07 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from tax and customs in 2021, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Monday. Hun Sen said the General Department of Taxation (GDT) earned 2.78 bill...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]/ Santa Clara (California) [US], January 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): Synapse Design, a QuEST Global company, today announced the company has joined the Design Center Alliance (DCA) program of TThe TSMC DCA program focuses on chip...