HANOI, 1st August, 2022 (WAM) -- Revenue generated from tourism hit 11.9 trillion VND (US$509.85 million) in the first seven months of this ye...

New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Third Edition of Vietnam-India Bilateral Army Exercise "Ex VINBAX 2022" is scheduled to be conducted at Chandimandir from August 1 to 20, 2022. The exercise is a sequel to previously conducted bilateral exercise ...

Manila - Former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos, a U.S.-trained ex-general who saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars and played a key role in a 1986 pro-democracy uprising that ousted a dictator, has died. He was 94.It was not immediately...

PHNOM PENH, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Taekwondo practitioner Phal Sovannath on Sunday won a gold medal at the 2022 World Police and Fire Games in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On Saturday, fellow Cambodian athletes Sam Yudeth and Va Mithona also ga...

HANOI, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,478 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 192 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,779,632. The country reported no new deaths from ...

by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- For many years, commuters, merchants and tourists had to spend endless hours to travel by land from the Croatian mainland to the southern part of the eastern European country. A bridge recent...

TAIYUAN, July 31 (Xinhua) -- North China's Shanxi Province launched its first international freight train that runs via the China-Laos Railway on Saturday, according to local railway authorities. The freight train, loaded with cargo containers includ...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Saturday congratulated two Cambodian taekwondo athletes on winning gold medals at the 2022 World Police and Fire Games in the Netherlands. In a post on his official Fac...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH)'s secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine has called on the public to continue to exercise caution as the Southeast Asian nation has seen a spike in new COVID-19 cases. Forty-se...

HANOI, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,670 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 135 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly-reported infections brought the total tally to 10,778,154. The country reported no new deaths fr...

Washington [US], July 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has no plans for a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their visit to Cambodia for meetings with ASEAN, State Department spok...

NANJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- A freight train left the city of Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province on Friday for Vietnam's Hanoi, marking the launch of a new freight train route between China and Vietnam. The freight train, loading 72 TEUs of glas...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's banking industry enjoyed robust growth in both loans and deposits in the first half of 2022, according to the latest report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Saturday. Outstanding loans rose by 23.4 ...

Washington [US], July 30 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Cambodia, the Philippines, and other South African countries in the coming week, the State Department said on Friday. The Secretary will be on travel from August 2nd thro...

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): Sandeep Arya, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Vietnam. Arya, a 1994 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is expected to take up the assignme...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Daily trading value on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) has skyrocketed in the first half of 2022, which truly reflects growing confidence among investors in the local bourse, CSX's Chief Executive Officer Hong S...

HANOI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,805 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up by 106 from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,776,484. The country reported a new death from t...

HANOI, 29th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of US$764 million in the first seven months of 2022, the General Statistics Of...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Two Cambodian youths joined the International Tiger Youth Summit and pledged their participation in tiger and wildlife conservation in Cambodia's natural forest habitats, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Cambodia said in ...

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): The Centre on Friday appointed Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Pranay Kumar Verma as the next High Commissioner of India to the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Verma, a 1994-batch IFS officer, is currently serv...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The poverty rate for Cambodia has dropped to 17.8 percent in 2020, from nearly 40 percent in 2009, a senior official said here on Friday. "During the last decade, the poverty rate declined by 1.6 percentage points per ...

VIENTIANE, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The medical train of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, after concluding its mission in the "Peace Train-2022" joint humanitarian medical rescue exercise and medical service activities, headed for China on Fri...

WASHINGTON - Over the past decade the United States has been torn between 'righteous indignation' and 'democratic backsliding and pragmatic engagement,' in its dealings with Cambodia, according to a recent report that criticizes Washington for issuin...

HANOI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam attracted an estimated foreign investment of more than 15.41 billion U.S. dollars in the first seven months of this year, down 7.1 percent year on year, according to the country's Ministry of Planning and Investment...

© Provided by Xinhua "Both pacts are also a well-timed intervention in Cambodia's quest for a Least Developed Country graduation, likely by 2028 and the country's planned endeavor to achieve the upper-middle income and high-income statuses by 2030 a...

white house - U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke at length Thursday morning amid tensions over a proposed visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has war...

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that Marxism has been showing new vitality in the 21st century, calling on all Marxist political parties to make the theory more relevant to the national conditions and the ti...

NEW DELHI -- The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing technologies for its first manned space flight, Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said on Thursday. India's first manned space flight is known as the "Gaganyaan ...

PHNOM PENH, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia will host the 55th ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related meetings from July 29 to Aug. 5 in Phnom Penh, according to a foreign ministry's statement issued on...

PHNOM PENH, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade pact and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) have provided wider exporting markets for Cambodia, officials said on Thursday. Ly Thuch, president ...

HANOI, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,697 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down by 64 from Wednesday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,774,679. The country reported no new deaths ...

New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will be visiting Guwahati to attend the Inaugural Session of 2nd North-East Buyer-Seller Meet (NE BSM) 2022 on Thursday, a Ministry of ...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], July 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Cambodia's National Assembly on Thursday ratified an agreement between the country and China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) government for avoiding double taxation and preventing fiscal evasio...

SEOUL -- South Korea's population logged the first fall last year due to chronically low births and rapid population aging, statistical office data showed Thursday. The country's population totaled 51.74 million on Nov. 1, 2021, down by 91,000 from a...

STATE DEPARTMENT - A Ukrainian official said Wednesday that Russian forces have taken over Ukraine's second-biggest power plant and are carrying out a 'massive redeployment' of troops to three regions in southern Ukraine.Oleksiy Arestovych, an advise...

State Department - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will speak to his Russian counterpart in the coming days about a "substantial" offer aimed at bringing home American basketball star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan,...

The woman is being accused of human trafficking and faces three years in prison A Russian court has sentenced a surrogate mother to three years in prison for allegedly eng...

HANOI, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,761 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up by 301 from Tuesday, according to its Ministry of Health. This is the highest daily figure recorded by the country since May 18 this year, according to the ministry...

Vientiane [Laos], July 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The Lao government is considering importing fuel from Saudi Arabia and exporting agricultural produce to the oil-rich nation. According to the local daily Vientiane Times on Wednesday, these issues were raised ...

HANOI, 26th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is on the right track in accelerating its decisive economic reform, but an upgrade is needed to meet t...

BUENOS AIRES, 19th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina Duong Quoc Thanh has assumed the position of ASEAN Committee in Buen...

RAS AL KHAIMAH, 18th July, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, today receiv...

HANOI, 15th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam needs to invest approximately US$368 billion from now until 2040 to build a climate resilient and low-...

HANOI, 14th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam continuously increased in the first half of this year, especially i...

BERLIN, 13th July, 2022 (WAM) -- A working delegation of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam led by Minister Ho Duc Phoc is paying a working vi...

HANOI, 12th July, 2022 (WAM) -- UNESCO representative in Vietnam Christian Manhart has highlighted Vietnam's leading role in protecting intang...

HANOI, 11th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has set a target that the export value of agricultural, forestry and fishery products to the EU market...

HANOI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnamese representatives reaffirmed their country's commitments to develop blue and sustainable oceans when a...

GENEVA, 28th June, 2022 (WAM) -- As a candidate for the membership of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for 2023 - 2025, Vietnam will continue...

HANOI, 27th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam jumped 39 steps to become the 62nd best country worldwide for quality of life in 2021, according to a...

HANOI, 13th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam needs immediate solutions to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) and strengthen its sources, ...

HANOI, 10th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam was placed 68th out of the 120 countries in the Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2021 recently released by the...

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

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

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