Hanoi [Vietnam], January 10 (ANI): Vietnam Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh on Sunday assigned ministries, sectors and localities to work with China to speed up customs clearance, striving for no congestion of trucks carrying goods for export at bo...

NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 35,707,727 on Monday, as 179,723 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, showed the health ministry's latest data. This is the fourth consecutive day when more than 100,000 new cases were regist...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Monday urged high-risk groups in capital Phnom Penh to receive the fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine starting from Jan. 14. The fourth-dose campaign will begin with f...

Beijing [China], January 10 (ANI): Due to COVID-19 concerns, several Vietnamese exporters have been urged by their Chinese partners to not dispatch goods by sea until a fresh decision is made. This has led to congestion at the Chinese ports and custo...

HANOI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,779 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 15,751 locally transmitted and 28 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of i...

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PHNOM PENH, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has reported its first community transmission of COVID-19 Omicron variant from a Phnom Penh resident, the health ministry said. The 23-year-old man was confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant in a pol...

© Provided by Xinhua A Lao business leader said being part of the RCEP agreement would provide more market opportunities for Laos to expand production for export and promote the tourism sector.by Chanthaphaphone Mixayboua, Zhang Jianh

KABUL -- A delegation of the Taliban-led caretaker government left for neighboring Iran on Saturday, a spokesman of Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said. "At the invitation of Iran, a senior delegation led by Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Mottaqi...

HANOI, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,553 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 16,513 locally transmitted and 40 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with highest number of inf...

YANGON, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's military has planned to further extend its ceasefire with ethnic armed groups until the end of 2022, according to a joint statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs late Friday. Senior General Min Aung Hl...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - While Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen put the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Five-Point Consensus for peace in Myanmar back on the regional agenda during his two-day visit to the country, analysts said any agreement i...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases of Omicron variant in Cambodia has risen to 150 after 27 new infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said on Saturday. "All 27 new cases were im...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2022, returned to Cambodia Saturday after a two-day visit to Myanmar, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prak ...

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...