Hanoi [Vietnam], June 10 (ANI): Adding yet another leaf to the defence ties between New Delhi and Hanoi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday handed over a USD 1 million to Vietnam's Air Force Officers Training School for the establishment of a l...

Washington [US], June 10 (ANI): As China and Cambodia took the first steps on a Chinese funded upgrade of the Ream Naval Base in south Cambodia, the West is worried about what Beijing's envoy has termed an "iron-clad partnership" between the two coun...

© Provided by Xinhua PHNOM PENH, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia started providing a fifth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to priority groups across the country on Thursday, the health ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said.

New Delhi [India], June 9 (ANI): Secretary East in the Ministry of External Affairs, Saurabh Kumar on Thursday participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum Senior Officials' Meeting (ARF SOM) virtually and shared India's perspectives on the threat posed ...

BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's General Administration of Customs has issued an alert on the transmission of dengue fever after it broke out in multiple countries. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne illness that can cause fever, headache, flushed s...

COLOMBO -- Sri Lankan Minister of Health Keheliya Rambukwella said on Thursday that wearing face masks in public places is no longer mandatory with effect from Friday. The minister said, however, it is advisable for those suffering from respiratory d...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 9 (ANI): Following India's 2-0 win against Cambodia in the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers 2023, head coach Igor Stimac and captain Sunil Chhetri have expressed happiness at getting a clean sheet, but also feel that the s...

VIENTIANE, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government has planned to increase the use of electric vehicles nationwide to 1 percent of the total number of vehicles by 2025 and over 30 percent in 2030 for the decarbonization of the transport sector. The amb...

SEOUL -- At least seven people were confirmed dead and 46 others wounded in a fire that broke out at an office building in the South Korean southeastern city of Daegu, Yonhap news agency said Thursday citing the firefighting authorities. The fire occ...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 9 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday handed over 12 high-speed guard boats for Vietnam Border Guard at Hong Ha Shipyard made under USD 100 million lines of credit by the Indian government. Five out of 12 boats wer...

PHNOM PENH, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia started providing the fifth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to priority groups across the country on Thursday, health ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said. The priority groups include leaders...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 9 (ANI): India grabbed all three points in their first game of the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers 2023 as they comfortably defeated Cambodia by a margin of 2-0 at the Vivekanand Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium on Wednesda...

VIENTIANE, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Laos' inflation rate climbed to 12.8 percent in May on a yearly basis, the highest in 18 years, according to the latest report from the Lao Statistics Bureau. The fuel crisis, with petrol stations across the country runn...

Jakarta [Indonesia], June 9 (ANI): Ministry of External Affairs official and Former Ambassador to Myanmar and Iran, Saurabh Kumar took part in the East Asia Summit Senior Officials' meeting on Wednesday over a videoconference chaired by Cambodia as A...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 8 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the historic Tran Quoc Pagoda in Hanoi on Wednesday. In a tweet, Rajnath Singh said the shared Buddhist heritage with Vietnam is a strong link in the modern day relations of both t...

Washington Post report about a naval base being set up by Beijing in Cambodia was "disinformation," China's foreign ministry says Beijing has rejected a report by the Wash...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 8 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met the President of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday. The meeting was held in Hanoi. "Delighted to call on the President of Vietnam, H.E. Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi today. India and ...

HANOI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 913 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, down by 47 from Tuesday, according to its ministry of health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 43 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hano...

Cambodia and China on Wednesday broke ground on a Beijing-funded project to revamp a naval base that the U.S. fears is intended for Chinese military use.The Washington Post this week cited unnamed Western officials as saying the new facilities at Cam...

HANOI, 8th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is joining international efforts to protect the blue ocean in response to World Ocean Day 2022, Vietnam...

HANOI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent over 2 billion U.S. dollars importing animal feeds and materials for animal feed production in the first five months of this year, down 2.3 percent against the same period last year, according to the General De...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 8 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with Vietnam's Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang in Hanoi on Wednesday, after which they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Mutual Logisti...

Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) is building a secret naval base in Cambodia as Beijing seeks to expand its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The base buildings are at a northern part of Cambodia's Ream Naval ...

Hanoi [Vietnam], June 8 (ANI): India and Vietnam on Wednesday signed a "Joint Vision Statement" for Defence Partnership towards the year 2030 to enhance the scope and scale of defence cooperation between the countries. This key vision statement was s...

© Provided by Xinhua The tightened monetary policy is aimed at reducing the amount of money in circulation and curbing the spiraling inflation rate. Laos recorded an inflation rate of 9.9 percent in April.VIENTIANE, June 8 (Xinhua) --

Once among the world's worst nations for illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, Vietnam is battling to redeem itself after a yellow card warning. Rogue fishers could see Vietnam barred from the European Union seafood market. Despite making

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Some localities in southern Vietnam have witnessed an increasing number of dengue fever cases in the past few weeks, local media reported on Tuesday. Ho Chi Minh City remained the hotspot with more than 10,000 cases and seve...

HANOI -- Some localities in southern Vietnam have witnessed an increasing number of dengue fever cases in the past few weeks, local media reported on Tuesday. Ho Chi Minh City remained the hotspot with more than 10,000 cases and seven deaths so far t...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): Indian men's team midfielder Anirudh Thapa urged his teammates to put in their quality in the team's performance to elevate the overall level as they begin the third round of AFC Asian Cup qualifiers again...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): India football head coach Igor Stimac believes his team are fully prepared and is hopeful of qualifying for the AFC Asian Cup finals as they take on Cambodia in the third round of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup Qu...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): With an eye on the next three matches to secure a spot at the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, Indian National team defender Sandesh Jhingan believes India needs to be a regular in Asia's showpiece football tournament,...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 7 (ANI): As the 'City of Joy' gears up to host the Team India in their first match of the Asian Cup Qualifiers Group D matches at the VYBK in Kolkata, head coach Igor Stimac averred that the 'passion from the stand...

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 960 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up by 158 from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 41 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi wa...

HANOI, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent over 1.4 billion U.S. dollars importing evidence-based medicines in the first five months of this year, up 20.7 percent from the same period last year, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade...

Beijing is looking to expand its influence in the Indo-Pacific by establishing a naval facility in Cambodia, the paper claimsChina is building a naval base for its military in Cambodia, with both Beijing and Phnom Penh going to great lengths to conce...

HANOI, 7th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam International Defence Expo 2022 is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in December. According to Vietnam ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia has become a state of COVID-zero after the last patient recovered, according to a health ministry's statement on Tuesday. The country reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 31 days straight, the statement said, adding that since...

Washington [US], June 7 (ANI): China is building a naval facility in Cambodia for military use, the second such overseas outpost and its first in the strategically significant Indo-Pacific region. The military presence will be on the northern portion...

The Biden administration announced Monday that it would waive tariffs on solar panels imported to the United States from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam for 24 months, reducing uncertainty for the U.S. solar energy companies that had been sp...

PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has become a state of COVID-zero after the last patient recovered, according to a health ministry's statement on Tuesday. The country reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 31 days straight, the statement said, ...

Indonesia may be the world's fourth most populous nation - with more than 270 million people - but Australian news coverage of it typically involves three things: beef, boats and Bali.Anthony Albanese's visit to Indonesia in his third week as prime m...

SYDNEY -- Australia's central bank announced on Tuesday a back-to-back rate hike in two consecutive months, lifting interest rate by 0.5 percentage point to 0.85 percent in a bid to relieve the country's growing inflation. "Inflation in Australia has...

BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The United States has tasted the bitter fruit of hyperinflation, which has stayed above 6 percent since the beginning of this year. While attributable to the sharp rise in global energy, food and commodity prices caused by...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): Indian men's football team is all set to start off their third round of AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers against Cambodia on June 8 at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. Ranked higher than Cambodia, the Blue Tigers...

Washington [US], June 6 (ANI): A large international study found that on average 31.4 per cent of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries. The result, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, revealed inequality ...

washington - President Joe Biden waived tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations for two years and invoked the Defense Production Act to spur solar panel manufacturing at home, the White House said on Monday, confirming a Reuters rep...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): An opportunity to don the blue at what is often hailed as the 'Mecca of Indian football', the Salt Lake Stadium has Indian national team forward Liston Colaco raring to go as the Blue Tigers face Cambodia ...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 802 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, up by 117 from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the new infections, four were imported cases and the rest were domestically transmitted cases reported in 4...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): The last time the Blue Tigers played in India, and in front of the fans was in Kolkata, in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers at the VYBK, in October 2019. The period in between has been a lull with ...

SYDNEY -- A new report from Australia's peak competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has shown that Australians have lost more than double to scams in the first four months of 2022 than the previous year. The...

By Payal MehtaNew Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday called upon the newly elected legislators from Manipur to adopt a public first" policy and underlined the importance of taking all stakeholders on board while formula...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam imported roughly 3.1 million tons of plastic worth over 5.5 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of this year, down 0.6 percent in volume and up 9.7 percent in value year on year, the Ministry of Industry an...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam spent more than 5.4 billion U.S. dollars importing over 5.1 million tons of steel and iron in the first five months of this year, up 17.1 percent in value and down 14.3 percent in volume year on year, data from the V...

HANOI, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam earned more than 14.9 billion U.S. dollars from exporting textiles and garments in the first five months of this year, up 21.7 percent from the same period last year, according to the country's Ministry of Industry a...

By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, June 6 (ANI): The last few months have not been good for startups and their venture capital (VC) backers. Growth stocks like Southeast Asia's largest ride-hailing and food delivery company Grab, ecommerce giant Sea Limited, ...

HANOI, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 685 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 196 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted cases reported in 36 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese c...

New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is all set to embark on a three-day visit to Vietnam from 8-10 June to hand over twelve high-speed guard boats constructed under India's USD 100 million Defence Line of Credit. During hi...

New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will be on an official visit to Vietnam between June 8-10 at the invitation of Vietnam's Minister of National Defence General Phan Van Giang. Singh will start his visit by paying respect...

PHNOM PENH, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Polls closed in the fifth commune elections in Cambodia on Sunday, a National Election Committee (NEC) member said. "All 23,602 polling stations across the country closed as planned at 3 p.m. local time," NEC member Dim...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 5 (ANI): With the AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers near, the news that there is no shortage of tickets on June 8, 11, and 14 is very exciting for the Indian Football community. The two local boys in the Blue Ti...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodians voted in local polls on Sunday as a revived opposition party attempted to dent Prime Minister Hun Sen's decades-long grip on power ahead of national elections next year.Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving lea...

ZHYTOMYR, UKRAINE - As soon as they had finished burying a veteran colonel killed by Russian shelling, the cemetery workers readied the next grave. Inevitably, given how quickly death is felling Ukrainian troops on the front lines, it won't be empty ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodians headed to the polls Sunday in local elections that are their first chance to vote since the ruling party of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen swept a 2018 general election that was widely criticized as unfair.Hun S...

KANDAL, Cambodia, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The fifth commune elections kicked off in Cambodia on Sunday after a two-week peaceful election campaign to choose commune chiefs and councilors for 1,652 communes. A total of 23,602 polling stations opened at 7:0...

BRUSSELS, 3rd June, 2022 (WAM) -- Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the EU, has met with EU Commissioner for ...

HANOI, 26th May, 2022 (WAM) -- All airline members of Vietnam Airlines Group, Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASO, will offer more tha...

HANOI, 19th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has reported 1,716 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including one imported case, taking the ...

HANOI, 13th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has successfully maintained fiscal, external and financial stability, Resident Representative of the In...

HANOI, 9th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Monday announced 2,269 new infections of COVID-19, according to the country's Ministry of Health. Ac...

HANOI, 28th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam attracted over US$10.8 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of this ye...

HANOI, 27th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Arrivals entering Vietnam via all border gates will no longer have to fill and submit health declaration form...

HANOI, 19th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Tuesday announced 12,012 new infections of COVID-19, including one imported case, the lowest since...

HANOI, 15th April, 2022 (WAM) -- The Vietnamese Health Ministry has started issuing vaccine passports from today, 15th April, the Vietnam News...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...