YANGON -- Myanmar registered 1,607 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, with over 1,000 infections for four straight days in February, according to a release from the Ministry of Health. A daily positivity rate of 6.5 percent was recorded after 24,707 lab s...

Melbourne [Australia], February 11 (ANI): The Quad countries have expressed grave concerns about the crisis in Myanmar and called for an end to violence, the release of all those arbitrarily detained, including foreigners, and unhindered humanitarian...

HANOI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 26,487 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up 455 cases from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health. The daily infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 26,471 domestically transmitted and 1...

Melbourne [Australia], February 11 (ANI): Quad countries during the fourth Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Australia reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Indo Pacific countries' efforts to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific - a region which is i...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Labor Minister Ith Samheng said here on Friday that some 1.3 million Cambodians have been working abroad, sending home roughly 2.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. The minister revealed the figures at an annual...

BANGKOK -- The resources provided by China to Afghanistan are helping the internally displaced Afghans to weather the harsh winter and COVID-19 pandemic, while China's engagement in political levels would facilitate a long-term solution to the situat...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian officials and experts discussed the benefits of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) during an online meeting, local media reported on Friday. Signed on Nov. 15, 2020 and entered into force ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Mainland Southeast Asia is entering its fourth year of drought, with climate change and unrelenting dam construction taking an unprecedented toll on the Mekong River and the 65 million people who rely on the waterway for their ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Even before the pandemic, Cambodia had established itself as one of the most loan-saturated markets in the world, thanks largely to the proliferation of microfinance institutions and weak oversight of the sector.The combination...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith has spoken highly of the China-Laos Railway during his recent trip by the Lane Xang EMU train and inspect...

?Sifu? is under fire for being made by a non-Asian team. It is nonsenseIf it were up to woke progressives, 20th century action movie heroes like Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Chuck Norris would've never had careers. Complaints about "cult...

BANGKOK -- Thailand on Thursday reported the second oil spill within one month in the Gulf of Thailand, with both accidents linked to the Star Petroleum Refining Public Company (SPRC). The latest oil spill, spotted at around 9 a.m. local time Thursda...

HANOI, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 26,032 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, an increase of more than 2,000 cases from Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health. The cases, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 26,023 domestically t...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Real estate developer JS Land Plc. debuted on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) on Thursday after an initial public offering (IPO) raised nearly 3.8 million U.S. dollars, according to the firm's press release. The...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2022, will host the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat (AMM Retreat) on Feb. 15-17 in Phnom Penh in a hybrid format, the country's foreign min...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian sports figures on Wednesday praised China for presenting a great Winter Olympic Games to the world, saying that the event would be an important contribution to building a global community with a shared future...

LONDON -- Britain's post-Brexit plans to have the world's most effective border by 2025 were described Wednesday by a House of Commons committee as "a noteworthy ambition" but one that is hard to achieve due to a lack of concrete measures. In a hard-...

Taipei [Taiwan], February 9 (ANI): Taiwan's business association, the Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI) on Wednesday suggested the island nation join Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) amid fears of China blocking Taipei's entry. Taiwan...

HANOI -- The Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense has received the second batch of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine presented by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China. A PLA transport aircraft carrying the vaccine doses arrived late Tuesday at Noi...

JAKARTA -- Indonesia has expected to earn a minimum investment worth at least 200-250 trillion rupiahs (about 13.9-17.4 billion U.S. dollars) from G20 presidency, mainly for the downstream industry in minerals and coal. "We want to focus on the downs...

Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], February 9 (ANI/PRNewswire):Shopify sellers can now create shoppable videos and use live streaming to boost engagement and increase sales. With the integration between Swirl and Shopify, sellers will be able to access all ...

HANOI, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Tourist hotspots across Vietnam received some 6.1 million domestic visitors during the nine-day Lunar New Year holiday that ended on Sunday, the country's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said on Tuesday. During the b...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Tuesday called on Cambodians to continue caution and properly follow protective measures to avert a disaster as the daily cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 increased to mor...

HANOI, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 21,909 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up some 5,100 cases from Monday, according to the Ministry of Health. The infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 21,901 locally transmitted and eight i...

THE OTHERWISE lackluster week sparkled on Friday with media showing their skills while providing citizens another close look at the candidates for president. Even on remote, the candidates made good use of the opportunity to make their pitch to the v...

New Delhi [India], February 8 (ANI/Mediawire): Enterprise SaaS platform Actyv.ai (Raghu, who is Dubai-based, has been an early investor in the company and brings in more than two decades of expertise in technology, entrepreneurial and corporate space...

BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Beijing Winter Olympics have become an arena where sportsmanship shines and opportunities are created to promote the pursuit of a community with a shared future for mankind. Having gone to great lengths to over...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Apsara National Authority (ANA) is restoring another three Buddha statues at Bakan tower of the famed Angkor Wat in the northwestern Siem Reap province after the previous one was restored, the authority said ...

Washington [US], February 8 (ANI): Oscar and Emmy award-winning visual effects artist Robert Blalack has died at the age of 73. Robert died on Wednesday of cancer at his home in Paris, his wife, writer Caroline Charron-Blalack, told The Hollywood Rep...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has barred Myanmar's military-appointed foreign minister from attending an upcoming conference after the United Nations Security Council called for an end to "all forms of vio...

Taipei [Taiwan], February 7 (ANI): Tsing-hua University law professor Lao Dong-yan speech titled "Facing the Real World," deploring certain trends in China and the state of the rule of law in the country were removed from the internet on Sunday, just...

Taipei [Taiwan], February 7 (ANI): Canada can benefit by partnering with Taiwan's tech titans by boosting its semiconductor industry, according to a recently released report. Canadian policy think tank the MacDonald Laurier Institute has released a r...

HANOI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,815 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 16,809 locally transmitted and six imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the highest number of infections on Mond...

The city of Baise issued stay-at-home orders after almost 100 Covid cases were reported over the weekendThe southwestern Chinese border city of Baise has ordered its roughly 3.5 million residents to stay at home and avoid non-essential travel from Mo...

HANOI -- About 17 million students across Vietnam are expected to return to school in the next few weeks starting Monday after prolonged online learning due to COVID-19, according to the country's Ministry of Education and Training. All 63 Vietnamese...

PINGXIANG, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- More than 30 China-Vietnam freight train trips were made in January 2022, up by over 26 percent from the previous year, setting a good start of cross-border goods transportation between China and Vietnam for 2022.Produce...

HANOI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- About 17 million students across Vietnam are expected to return to school in the next few weeks starting Monday after prolonged online learning due to COVID-19, according to the country's Ministry of Education and Training. ...