Washington - Vietnamese refugees in Thailand are facing delays in renewing identity cards issued by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Bangkok, and the pandemic-related suspension of processing has exposed many to the possibili...

JAKARTA -- Finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 members will gather from Feb. 17 to 18 for their first meeting this year under the Indonesian presidency in Jakarta, despite a steady increase in daily COVID-19 cases. Perry Warjiyo, go...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Host Cambodia on Monday night defeated Brunei 6-0 in its first match of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022. Held at the Morodok Techo National Stadium here and broadcast live on local Bayon TV ch...

HANOI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- For college junior student Dao Quang Khai, Monday is a big day as it is his first day back in school after almost nine months of distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other educational institutions in Vi...

HANOI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 29,413 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, up by 3,034 cases from Sunday, its ministry of health said. The new infections, logged i...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A Lao health official on Monday called for strict observance of COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Buaphan Khamphaphongphan, deputy director-general of the National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology under th...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Lao Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has outlined new measures in relation to climate change, aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. According to local daily Vientiane Times report on Monda...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country's embattled opposition voices.U.N. rights experts warn the gateway, which will funnel all web traffi...

SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export of the information and communications technology (ICT) products logged double-digit growth in the first month of this year, government data showed on Monday. The ICT products export spiked 20.7 percent ...

Seoul [South Korea], February 14 (ANI/Global Economic): For the announcement of Korea's top actors Hyunbin (40) and Son Ye-jin (40)'s marriage on the 11th, global fans in Japan and China have also sent blessings online. The tvN's drama 'Crash Landing...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The third edition of the 2022 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship will kick off on Monday afternoon at the new Morodok Techo National Stadium in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, the AFF said in a press relea...

CANBERRA -- Thousands of Australians have gathered in the nation's capital to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates. Up to 10,000 people during the weekend took to the streets of Canberra to urge the federal, state and territory governments to immedia...

Paris [France], February 13 (ANI): As the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meets in Paris to investigate terror-financing and money laundering and deliberate progress of Pakistan - the Baloch, Pashtun, Afghan, Uyghur, and Hong Kong communities livi...

HANOI, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 26,379 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. The infections, logged in 58 localities nationwide, included 26,372 domestically transmitted and seven imported. The Vietnamese capi...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian health ministry's spokeswoman Or Vandine on Sunday urged people to be more vigilant and to comply with health protocols amid the rise of COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant. The health ministry registered 4...

HANOI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 27,311 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, up 824 cases from Friday, according to the Ministry of Health. The daily infections, logged in 60 localities nationwide, included 27,302 domestically transmitted and n...

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...