Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 24 (ANI): Congress leader Harish Rawat on Wednesday said that he will offer land to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Uttarakhand to build a house after he loses the Assembly elections in the ...

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani government agreed on an "exceptional basis" to allow the overland transportation of humanitarian assistance from India to Afghanistan, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said here on Wednesday. Pakistan has allowed the transpor...

HANOI, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered another record high number of daily COVID-19 infections on Wednesday with 60,355 cases, up 4,476 cases from the previous record on Tuesday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- New COVID-19 infections have been on the rise in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the country's former pandemic hotspot, in recent days, with Omicron currently the dominant variant here, according to t...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Laos has confirmed a total of 27 cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, including the first local transmission and 26 imported cases, since the beginning of 2022, the National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevent...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Laos-China Railway Company (LCRC) has announced it will operate slower-speed trains in addition to the two existing high-speed EMU (electric multiple unit) trains to meet the growing needs of passengers. The LCRC ha...

Washington - The Biden administration announced actions taken by the federal government and private industry that it says will bolster the supply chain for rare earths and other critical minerals used in technologies from household appliances and ele...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The year-on-year inflation rate in Laos jumped to 6.25 percent in January, the highest figure recorded since January 2020. The cost of goods and services has continued to climb since March 2021 and jumped to 5.04 percen...

HONG KONG -- The construction of four temporary community isolation and treatment facilities, or mobile cabin hospitals, for COVID-19 patients, began on Tuesday in Hong Kong with the support of the central government. Around 14,000 to 17,000 isolatio...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Tuesday that there will be no lockdown in capital Phnom Penh or other locations again despite a daily surge in new COVID-19 cases. The kingdom logged 598 new cases on...

A new project launched on Monday by two UN agencies aims to improve the diet of school-age children by supporting the development of nutrition standards for school meal programmes.In many countries school meals represent a significant portion of chil...

US President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China showed how one meeting can change the course of historyThis week marks the 50th anniversary of a meeting that culminated in one of the biggest, and perhaps most consequential, 'political earthquakes' o...

It was "the week that changed the world". On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries' relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.China needed protection fro...

BANGKOK -- Thailand on Monday raised its COVID-19 alert level to the second-highest tier following a rising number of new infections linked to the spread of the Omicron variant. The Ministry of Public Health raised the COVID-19 alert level from 3 to ...

HANOI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 46,880 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, down 320 cases from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 46,861 domestically transmitted ...

Hanoi [Vietnam], February 21 (ANI): China has suspended trade through the border gate in Vietnam's Lao Cai Province after COVID-19 cases emerged on its side, leaving hundreds of container trucks stranded. According to Vietnamese media, China was Viet...

BEIJING - At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginab

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The picturesque Swiss town of Davos is celebrated for hosting the World Economic Forum (WEF). It has also been a witness to China's endeavor to champion an open, cooperative and mutually beneficial world economy. On his f...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government has vowed to expedite a nationwide vaccination program for children aged 6 and over against COVID-19, starting on Monday. The program is part of the government's efforts to ensure that people of all e...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Timor-Leste beat host Cambodia 1-0 on Sunday to win Group A in the final group fixture of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022. With the Philippines edging Brunei 2-1 in an inconsequent tie of the ...

Myanmar's military government has criticized calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year's coup, which the junta has declared as "terrorist" groups.With little ...

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export logged a double-digit growth in the first 20 days of February due to the continued recovery in global demand from the COVID-19 pandemic, customs office data showed Monday. Export, which takes up about h...

DHAKA -- The Bangladeshi government will not extend its COVID-19 restrictions once they expire on Feb. 22 but mask mandates remain as usual. Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam made the announcement Sunday, saying the existing restrictions relat...

HANOI, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered a fresh record of 47,200 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, an increase of 4,761 cases from the previous high reported on Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 63 loca...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Sunday dispatched the eighth batch of 219 peacekeepers, including 28 women, to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Speaking at the departure ceremony held at ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodia's health spokesperson has warned of four-figure numbers of daily COVID-19 cases, urging people to adhere to health protocols. The southeast Asian nation logged 736 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, six of which ...

washington - A major initiative to strengthen and cement America's ties with Asia and counterbalance China's expanding influence lacks robust trade incentives that are viewed as politically perilous in the United States, where protectionist sentiment...

Munich [Germany], February 20 (ANI): Reaffirming strong diplomatic relations with ASEAN nations, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed a recent poll that suggested that trust of the southeast Asian bloc had decreased in I...

HANOI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 41,980 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, down 459 cases from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 41,968 domestically transmitte...

In the last three years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of North Macedonians who have become Bulgarian citizens. This is according to an official report of the Ministry of Justice, prepared and submitted specifically to the BGNES Agenc...