© Provided by Xinhua HANOI, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese authorities and the Chinese embassy in Vietnam on Thursday held a ceremony to officially inaugurate the China-constructed Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro line project, the first one of the type compl...

HANOI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,040 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 16,026 locally transmitted and 14 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the most affected region with the highes...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports announced on Friday that 72,016, or 65.65 percent, of the total 109,695 candidates passed their annual high school graduation exam. A ministry's press statement said t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest free trade pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), could help export-reliant Asian companies and may be good diplomacy, experts say.The trade agreement went into effect Jan. 1.In Thailand, Pra...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Friday began providing the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to priority groups in capital Phnom Penh as the Omicron variant has spread into the community. The priority groups include leaders of the governme...

Photo: Pixabay/QuangprahaThe Mekong Delta in Vietnam is a scenic region home to about 17 million people, but this economically vital area of the Southeast Asian nation is sinking fast. A primary reason: large swathes of land there have been poldered ...

Beijing [China], January 14 (ANI): Chinese soldiers threw stones at Vietnamese forces just as they did in the Galwan Valley clash in 2020 with the Indian side. In 2020, Chinese soldiers attacked the Indian side with stones, sticks with spikes and oth...

Cambodia on Wednesday postponed the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting under its 2022 chairmanship, the government said, amid reports of differences among the bloc's members over Prime Minister Hun Sen's visit to Myanmar last week, ...

In an attempt to attract more foreign students, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire says it will admit international students regardless of their ability to pay tuition.International students will be admitted through a "need blind" process used for U....

Washington [US], January 13 (ANI): Realme, one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands, will launch a new flagship smartphone from Realme 9i in India on January 18. The Snapdragon 680-powered phone-- Realme 9i debuted in Vietnam earlier this week. A...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Laos recorded a trade deficit of 80 million U.S. dollars in December, according to the latest information from the Lao Trade Portal website. Laos' exports in December totaled 552 million U.S. dollars and imports totaled...

HANOI, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,725 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, including 16,700 locally transmitted and 25 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. In the Southeast Asian country, the capital Hanoi continued to ...

BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday held a phone conversation with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on bilateral ties and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). In the phone call, in which the...

The rodent's bravery allowed it to detect more than a hundred explosives and clear 225,000 square meters of land in CambodiaAn African giant pouched rat, named Magawa, who found 78 landmines and 38 unexploded ordinances in Cambodia and was awarded a ...

Photo: Pixabay/ArtisticOperationsTigers in the wild are critically endangered throughout their remaining ranges in South and Southeast Asia, but that has hardly stopped unscrupulous poachers from continuing to hunt the iconic predators any chance the...

Ha Giang [Vietnam], January 13 (ANI): A video posted on the Twitter account of one Lee Ann Quann on January 3 shows Chinese soldiers throwing stones at Vietnamese construction workers and abusing the unarmed workers, in Ha Giang province of northern ...

SHANGHAI, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's national men's football team on Wednesday began a training camp in Shanghai's Century Park ahead of FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Vietnam. According to new head coach Li Xiaopeng, 26 of the 52 playe...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia said Wednesday that a U.S. private collector has agreed to return 28 looted Cambodian cultural artifacts and the antiquities will be repatriated to the kingdom at an appropriate time. One of the antiquities is...

HANOI, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,135 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 16,066 locally transmitted and 69 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Laos reported 916 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, including 908 community cases, according to the Lao Ministry of Health. Among the newly recorded community cases, 309 were detected in Lao capital Vientiane,...

Conditions for media in Vietnam have rarely been so bad, media analysts say, with the country jailing over a dozen reporters in the past 12 months, and courts handing out unusually long sentences.The rise in arrests came as Vietnam's ruling Communist...

NANJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A freight train route has been launched between Suzhou, a major export hub in east China, and Lao capital Vientiane, according to the train operator. A train carrying goods such as LCDs and auto parts, with a total value ...

I?ve just attended the latest inauguration of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega as Nicaraguan president and found him in a bullish mood, relishing his country's improved ties with China and critical of American hypocrisy.Since 1987, I have been coming ...

KATHMANDU -- The authorities in Nepal's most populated Kathmandu Valley decided on Tuesday to ban gatherings of more than 25 people as the South Asian country reported surging cases of COVID-19 in recent days. Under a directive issued after a meeting...

HANOI, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- As many as 304,149 units of automobile were sold in the Vietnamese market in 2021, up 3 percent year-on-year, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers' Association said on Tuesday. Specifically, sales of domestically assembled ...

HANOI, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,035 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, including 16,019 locally transmitted and 16 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality recording the...

HANOI, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The 15th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam concluded its first extraordinary session here on Tuesday after approving a stimulus package to bolster the country's economy hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the clo...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Mine-sniffing hero rat Magawa, who won a gold medal for his mine-detection work in Cambodia, has died at the age of eight, charity Apopo said in a news release on Tuesday. "Hero rat Magawa passed away peacefully this w...

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China has announced a 23-woman squad to travel to India for the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup on Tuesday, with several veterans returning to the roster. China has been preparing for the tournament in a training camp since la...

SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export logged a double-digit growth for the first 10 days of January due to the continued global demand recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, customs office data showed Tuesday. Export, which accounts for about...

Paris [France], January 11 (ANI): On the occasion of World Hindi Day on January 10, the Director of World Heritage Centre has informed the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, Paris that UNESCO's World Heritage Centre has agreed to publish Hindi ...

New Delhi [India], January 11 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn on Monday and discussed India-Association of South East Asian Nations relations (ASEAN) and the current situation in Myanmar....

Global problems require global solutions. With COVID-19, however, we're seeing that our governance mechanisms don't drive global solutions even when our lives depend on it.This is a problem because it will lead to diminishing trust in public institut...

HANOI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh on Monday wrapped up an official visit to Vietnam from Jan. 8 to 10 to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries. In the Vietnamese capital city Hanoi, Phankham held talk...

KHARTOUM -- Sudanese police on Monday announced the death of a protester and the injury of 30 demonstrators and policemen during mass protests in the capital Khartoum and other cities on Sunday. A total of 22 policemen were injured during the demonst...

HANOI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,818 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 14,783 locally transmitted and 35 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi had the highest number of infections on Monday wi...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Three Cambodian deminers were killed and one seriously wounded on Monday after an anti-tank mine exploded during a demining and explosive ordnance disposal operation in northwestern Preah Vihear province, officials sai...

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...