© Provided by Xinhua The close ties between China and Cambodia have driven a "Chinese fever" among Cambodians, inspiring more students to learn the language and explore the culture behind it.PHNOM PENH, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The passion

HANOI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered another record high of daily COVID-19 infections on Friday, with 78,795 cases, up 9,667 cases from the previous record on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 63 lo...

Islamabad [Pakistan], February 25 (ANI): Pakistan President Arif Alvi has taken a jibe at the United States as he expressed surprise that Washington had not "learnt from the past" and "fell into another trap". Alvi made these remarks during a session...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have signed a memorandum of understanding on trade promotion, aiming at further boosting bilateral trade volume, the Cambodian Commerce Ministry said in a sta...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The passion to learn Chinese is on the rise among Cambodians as the two countries have enjoyed close ties in diverse spheres even during the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic. You Rong, a senior majoring in Chin...

Hanoi [Vietnam], February 25 (ANI): Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday raised concerns on terrorists potentially using the country's soil to launch attacks in third countries, a report said. Dinh Viet Dung, deputy head of the Departme...

BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- With a draw held virtually in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday, six groups were decided for the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers final round. Among the 24 teams, the six group winners and five best second-placed team...

HANOI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The total COVID-19 cases in Vietnam surpassed the grim mark of 3 million on Thursday amid a new resurgence, showed data from the Ministry of Health. The Southeast Asian country registered 69,128 new COVID-19 cases in the pa...

HANOI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The total COVID-19 cases in Vietnam surpassed the grim milestone of three million cases on Thursday to reach 3,041,506, with 39,884 deaths from the virus, said its Ministry of Health. In the past 24 hours, the country regis...

New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): India have been drawn alongside Hong Kong, Afghanistan, and Cambodia in Group D of the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 final round qualifiers at the official draw ceremony which was conducted at the Asian Football Confe...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and his visiting Malaysian counterpart Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Thursday vowed to further strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era for mutual benefits. The ...

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...