New Delhi [India], September 26 (ANI): The number of countries participating in the renewable energy market is increasing but most of the jobs created to date have been in a relatively small number of countries. In 2020-21, India created 863,000 gree...

By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, September 26 (ANI): When the Formula One circus rolls into Singapore this week for the 13th running of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix from September 30 to October 2, it will signal Singapore's strong return as a host of world-c...

MANILA - A powerful typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Sunday and was barreling across the main Luzon island toward the capital in a densely populated path where thousands have been evacuated to safety.Typhoon Noru hit the coastal t...

The unchecked growth of freewheeling business enclaves and casinos in and around Laos is opening new money laundering and drug trafficking options for crime networks using the country to push spiraling volumes of narcotics across Asia, the United Nat...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia - Chinese survivors from a boat that sank near a Cambodian island, killing three people and leaving eight missing, said they embarked on what they believed would be a short-term fishing job and ended up without food and water ...

HANOI, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 961 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 215 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought the total...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A powerful typhoon shifted and strengthened in an 'explosive intensification' Sunday, prompting evacuations from high-risk villages as it approached the northeastern Philippines where it might sideswipe the capital, officials sa...

The once-unlikely deal with the UAE strengthens a nascent regional alliance between West Jerusalem and the Gulf monarchiesIsrael has sold its Surface-to-air Python and Derby (SPYDER) air defense system to the United Arab Emirates, Reuters reported on...

Bangkok - A Chinese scientific ship bristling with surveillance equipment docked in a Sri Lankan port. Hundreds of fishing boats anchored for months at a time among disputed islands in the South China Sea. And oceangoing ferries, built to be capable ...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], September 24 (ANI): The Blue Tigers' first match since the AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers in June yielded no result as India and Singapore remained locked in a 1-1 draw in the Hung Thinh Friendly Football Tournament at the Thong...

CANBERRA -- The world's largest penguin species is facing extinction within 30 years, Australian researchers have warned. Barbara Wienecke, a senior research scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), revealed that modeling suggests the ic...

Pro-Kiev internet warriors are using DDoS-attacks to overload the Mir system, Kommersant reportsUkrainian hackers are conducting cyberattacks on Russia's interbank payment system, threatening to hinder its operations and undermine clients' trust in t...

HANOI, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,176 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 1,369 from Friday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought th...

HANOI, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's first test for the local version of the Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (CTCSOL) was held Saturday in the capital Hanoi. A total of 23 Chinese teachers from across Vietnam took ...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The weather bureau of Laos has warned people across the country to be alert to the possibility of landslides, flooding, strong winds and rain from tropical storm Noru. According to a report issued on Friday by the Depa...

New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): As team India prepares to take on Singapore in their first FIFA International Friendly in the Hung Thinh Friendly Football Tournament on Saturday, head coach Igor Stimac sounded confident yet cautious on the eve...

KABUL -- Seven people were killed and 41 others injured as a blast rocked the Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan area of the Afghan capital on Friday, Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. "A car with explosives exploded in front of the Wazir Akbar Khan ...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan continues to face a growing momentum in the spread of dengue fever as the death toll from the disease in the country's southern Sindh province in September has reached 30, the provincial health department reported Thursday eveni...

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Standing in line to try to buy food, Rekha Begum is distraught. Like many others in Bangladesh, she is struggling to find affordable daily essentials like rice, lentils and onions.'I went to two other places, but they told me they...

HANOI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 2,545 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up 617 from Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought the total...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A boat carrying Chinese nationals sunk off southwestern Cambodia's sea on Thursday evening, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia confirmed on Friday. According to the Chinese embassy, they received a notification from the ...

HANOI, 23rd September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is ranked 63rd out of 113 global economies in a global ranking of digital environment and support...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A total of 25,546 cases of dengue fever have been recorded across the country since January 2022, according to the Lao Ministry of Health. A report issued by the Center of Information and Education for Health under the...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A boat carrying Chinese nationals sunk off southwestern Cambodia's sea on Thursday evening, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia confirmed on Friday. According to the Chinese embassy, they received a notification from the ...

New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): Former India captain and the new co-opted executive committee member of the AIFF, Bhaichung Bhutia, is excited about India's tour of Vietnam and will keenly follow the team's performance in the two-friendly matc...

Phnom Penh - Cambodians applauded the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Thursday after the United Nations-backed court upheld a genocide conviction against former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan, the final verdict in a marathon effort to find justice for vict...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodia national football team lost to Bangladesh 1-0 in an international friendly here Thursday night. Played at the capital's Morodok Techo National Stadium, the game attracted approximately 10,000 avid footbal...

HANOI, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,928 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down by 359 from Wednesday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought t...

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI): Mahesh Gawali, the legendary centre-back from the early years of the 21st century, was only 22 when he travelled with the National Team to play the 2002 LG Cup in Vietnam. Twenty years later, the fans still reca...

VIENTIANE, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered its 2022 economic growth outlook for Laos to 2.5 percent from 3.4 percent projected in April and to 3.5 percent from 3.7 percent for 2023. The slower growth projection is li...

NEW DELHI -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday cut down India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth projection to 7 percent for the remaining part of the current fiscal year (April 2022-March 2023), from 7.5 percent estimated in April. Te...

HANOI, 21st September, 2022 (WAM) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has maintained its favourable economic outlook for Vietnam as it forecas...

HANOI, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 2,287 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, down by 890 from Tuesday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought th...

Jakarta [Indonesia], September 21 (ANI): China has not been able to strike strategic takeovers with South-East Asian nations as the countries have complimented their own development with China's economic growth and have been able to dodge the communi...

Banks in Vietnam and Kazakhstan have reportedly stopped servicing Mir cards after US sanctions threatFinancial institutions in Kazakhstan and Vietnam have stopped accepting Russian Mir payment cards, Izvestia daily reported on Wednesday.The informati...

Banks in Vietnam and Kazakhstan have reportedly stopped servicing Mir cards after US sanctions threat Financial institutions in Kazakhstan and Vietnam have stopped accepti...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Wednesday set a new monthly minimum wage for workers in the country's garment, footwear and travel goods sector at some 200 U.S. dollars from 2023, up 3.09 percent from the current level of 194 U.S. dollar...

HCM City, Vietnam, 9th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Thousands of stroke patients hospitalised in HCM City's People's Hospital 115, Vietnam, over t...

BRUSSELS, 8th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is among the 66 military medical delegations gathering in the Belgian capital city of Brussels ...

HANOI, 5th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam recorded 1,390 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national caseload to 11,418,894, the Viet...

HANOI, 2nd September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has made significant efforts to implement the UNESCO Convention for the protection of the world cu...

ABU DHABI, 2nd September, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a congratulatory message to Preside...

HANOI, 22nd August, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam recorded 1,561 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, raising the national caseload to 11,383,819, the Vietna...

HANOI, 20th August, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed a decision on the National Plan of Action on prevent...

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...

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...