© Provided by Xinhua MANILA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- "The pandemic is not yet over," a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Friday, saying the continued emergence of subvariants "poses a risk of resurgence and overwhelming h

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres agreed on Friday to continue to strengthen multilateralism with the United Nations playing a central role amid unpredictable developments in th...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (LCRC), a joint venture based in Lao capital Vientiane and responsible for the operation of the railway's Lao section, has conducted an exercise responding to emergency cases in the tunn...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government is scheduled to resume the annual That Luang Festival so as to boost economic recovery and preserve the country's cultural traditions, after it was canceled for the past two years due to the COVID-19 ...

CANBERRA -- Flooding in Australia's southeast will harm the country's projected economic growth, the treasurer has confirmed. Ahead of handing down his first federal budget on Tuesday, Jim Chalmers on Friday said modeling suggests floods in Tasmania,...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - To Ali, it seemed like a great way to make more money. The 23-year-old earned $350 per month as a cleaner in a factory at home in Malaysia. But in April, he was purportedly offered a job in Cambodia making four times as much ...

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 582 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up 41 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 tal...

SINGAPORE, 21st October, 2022 (WAM) -- Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, General To Lam attended the Singapore International Cyber Week (...

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has lifted caps on credit growth for some banks to provide more loans to the economy as firms need more capital to boost production at the end of the year, local media reported on Friday. It ...

MANILA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- "The pandemic is not yet over," a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Friday, saying the continued emergence of subvariants "poses a risk of resurgence and overwhelming health systems." Babatunde Olowokure, ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has seen no new deaths from COVID-19 since April, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Friday. "This is a success that resulted from our joint efforts in the fight against COVID-19," he said in a...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], October 21 (ANI): The arrest of chairwoman of Vietnam-based Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, Troung My Lan, has again brought the Chinese connection with business tycoons in Vietnam into limelight, The Singapore Post reporte...

© Provided by Xinhua Residents in Lao capital tighten their belts by giving up buying trendy things, spending money wisely, growing vegetables and using domestic products to beat the spiraling inflation which hit a 22-year high in September.

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- In a report delivered on Sunday at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, expounded on the tasks of the CPC in the new era. "From this...

We all know Mitsubishi for its rather unimpressive stint in India. The Japanese company had launched enthusiastic products and was poorly received. A combination of factors led to very uninspiring sales for the company. In its defence, Mitsubishi had...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Timor-Leste on Thursday signed two deals to boost bilateral ties and cooperation, a Cambodian senior official said. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and visiting Timor-Leste President Jose Ra...

TOKYO -- Japan logged a record trade deficit in the six months to September, owing to soaring prices for energy and raw material imports being further inflated by the yen's steep decline against the U.S. dollar, the government said in a report on Thu...

HANOI, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 541 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down by 796 from Wednesday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the health ministry. The newly reported infections broug...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- A centuries-old sandstone Asura head statue has been discovered in front of the south gate of the Angkor Thom temple in Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park, the APSARA National Authority (ANA) said in a news re...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Spiraling inflation in Laos is having a dramatic effect on people's lives, even though the government has promised to garner more revenues to swell its coffers while reining in spending and stabilizing currency exchange...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Money exchange units in Laos that represent commercial banks are now prohibited from selling foreign currency, according to Lao central Bank. According to an updated information from the Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) websit...

HANOI, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,337 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up by 714 from Tuesday, according to its ministry of health. Among the new cases, one was imported and the rest were all locally transmitted, said the health ministry....

VIENTIANE, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The number of dengue fever cases keeps on growing in Laos and one new death was reported, the Lao Health Ministry said here on Wednesday. In the last 24 hours, the Lao Ministry of Health reported 128 new confirmed cases...

Washington [US], October 19 (ANI): One of the rockabilly's earliest revivalists and a familiar presence on the 1970s New York City punk rock scene, Robert Gordon passed away at the age of 75 on Tuesday. According to Variety, no cause of death was cit...

HANOI, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 622 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, down 51 from Monday, according to the Ministry of Health. Among the new cases, one was imported and the rest were all locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly rep...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian government officials and development partners gathered here at a high-level workshop on Tuesday, vowing to accelerate efforts to end child wasting in the Southeast Asian nation, said a joint statement. Childr...

New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): India's oilmeal exports during the first half of the current financial year - April to September - were 39 per cent higher year-on-year at around 1.77 million tonnes, data compiled by vegetable oil industry body T...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Timor-Leste are scheduled to sign two bilateral documents on air services and rice trade this week, Cambodia's foreign ministry said in a press statement on Tuesday. The air services cooperation agreement ...

BEIJING, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- A report delivered on Sunday by Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) struck Sean Slattery as "very forward-looking."Slattery was one of nine foreign experts invited to translate a...

HANOI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Southeast Asia Ministerial Forum 2022 was held Monday in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. Themed "Connecting Regions: Partnership for Resilient and Sustainable S...

KUALA LUMPUR -- The East Coast Rail Link, Malaysia's mega rail project jointly constructed with China Communications Construction Company, saw another successful tunnel breakthrough on Monday. The 2.8-km long Kuantan Tunnel has achieved a tunneling b...

HANOI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 673 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, up by 348 from Sunday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the health ministry. The newly reported infections brought the ...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting that Laos will see economic growth of 2.2 percent in 2022 before rising 3.1 percent in 2023. The IMF's October projection remained unchanged at 2.2 percent, but the fi...

HANOI, 10th October, 2022 (WAM) - The 28th Vietnam Medi-pharm Expo will take place from 1st-3rd December in Hanoi, giving a chance for business...

HANOI, 4th October, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam will invest in 10 energy technologies in the 2021-2030 period to ensure energy security for the count...

HANOI, 30th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam estimates a trade surplus of US$6.52 billion in the first nine months of this year, Vietnam News ...

HANOI, 28th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Typhoon Noru made landfall in Vietnam early on Wednesday, causing damage to thousands of homes and widesp...

HANOI, 27th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Economists have forecast Vietnam's inflation will be kept at around 3.3-3.8% this year, similar to the Na...

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

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

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...