HANOI, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has run a trade surplus for eight years in a row, estimated at a record high of nearly 30 billion U.S. dollars this year, nearly three times higher than in 2022, Vietnam News reported Thursday, citing the Ministry o...

HANOI, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- After a period of decline and stabilization in 2022-2023, Vietnam's stock market is expected to witness significant growth opportunities in 2024, Vietnam News cited experts as saying on Thursday. According to the experts, l...

CANBERRA -- The Australian government has announced that it will not send a warship to the Red Sea but will deploy additional troops to the region. Richard Marles, the minister for defence, on Thursday said the Australian government had denied a requ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia issued operating licenses to 11,506 new companies and enterprises in the first 11 months of 2023, up 14.5 percent over the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said in a report on Thursday. The Mini...

HANOI, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will lift regional minimum salary for laborers by 6 percent next year, local media reported on Wednesday. The National Wage Council gave the green light to the increase and will submit it to the government for appro...

Washington, DC [US], December 21 (ANI): US State Secretary Antony Blinken has said the US has deepened its partnership with India. He said the country has elevated cooperation with India, Japan and Australia through the Quad. "We've deepened our part...

US liberals continue to neglect the age-old truism that ?those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it?There are no safe spaces left anywhere in America, especially if you're an old bronze statue dedicated to dead white men with epic stor...

New Delhi [India], December 20 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday met the Vietnam-India Parliamentary Friendship Group led by Duong Thanh Binh, Head of the Commission for People's Petitions and Chairman of the Group, at Parliament House C...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met here on Wednesday with Gao Yunlong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chairman of the China Foundation for Peace and Deve...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 20 (ANI/WAM): Vietnam, together with China and some other Asian countries, is among the 20 countries with the fastest economic growth over the last ten years, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted Yahoo Finance as saying. In its ...

New Delhi [India], December 20 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met the Vietnam-India Parliamentary Friendship Group in the national capital on Wednesday. Last week, lauding ties between the nations, Vietnam's Ambassador to India, Nguyen Thanh Hai, ...

HANOI, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Watermelon has become the next farm produce of Vietnam to be exported to China via the official channel with China's recent permission, Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday. The fresh watermelon meeting phytosanitary s...

Melbourne [Australia], December 20 (ANI): The Melbourne court in Australia, in a first verdict of its kind under the country's foreign influence laws, convicted an Australian businessman for covertly working for the Chinese communist party, CNN repor...

HANOI, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- As the Vietnamese economy still faces headwinds, the World Bank has suggested the country to extend the implementation of the economic support program 2022-2023 into next year to fully implement its planned investments and ...

© Provided by Xinhua SHENZHEN, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Building upon transformative strides taken over the past decades, the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen is embarking on a new chapter in the country's reform and opening-up efforts.Shenzhen, o...

NEW YORK: On December 15, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City said it will return two sculptures to Thailand and 14 to Cambodia.The artifacts were associated with art dealer Douglas Latchford, charged in 2019 with smuggling looted artefac...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Several Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in collaboration with the Civil Society Alliance Forum (CSAF) of Cambodia, on Tuesday unveiled several projects, aiming at improving the livelihoods of rural peopl...

BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- After concluding his state visit to Vietnam in mid-December, Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected the bordering Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China, a sub-

HANOI -- The Vietnamese capital market has shown strong growth on the back of the stable macroeconomic situation, local media has reported. However, improvements should be made in margin trading and securities blockade before transaction, foreign own...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 19 (ANI): Vietnamese activism has always revolved around anti-China rallies, but the reaction to Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam on December 12-13 was subdued since Hanoi has imprisoned critics, and activists...

HANOI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam imported 111,278 cars worth 2.65 billion U.S. dollars in the first 11 months of this year, down 26.6 percent in volume and 22 percent in value year on year, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday, citing the General De...

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - Anti-China protests have been a cornerstone of Vietnamese activism, but the response to Chinese President Xi Jinping's December 12-13 visit to Vietnam has been muted as Hanoi has jailed critics, and activists and experts c...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation (CPSF) and Khmer Organic Cooperative Co., Ltd. launched on Monday an "Export Development Program," aiming at boosting the exports of Cambodia's agricultural products, said a joint ...

BEIJING -- China will see more favorable conditions than unfavorable ones for economic development next year, as positive factors supporting high-quality development continue to accumulate, according to a Chinese official. China's economic developmen...

NANCHANG, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Lao Rongzhi, a woman who was convicted of murder, robbery and abduction, was executed on Monday, according to China's Supreme People's Court (SPC). Lao's death sentence was approved by the SPC before the Intermediate Peo...

Vietnam has found itself in the position of kingmaker, being crucial for the plans of both Beijing and Washington for Asia Chinese leader Xi Jinping has just paid an offic...

© Provided by Xinhua NANNING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the hustle of dockworkers and the rhythmic hum of machinery, an assortment of frozen seafood was loaded onto cargo ships bound for Southeast Asia.According to the producer of these seafood pro...

NANNING, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the hustle of dockworkers and the rhythmic hum of machinery, an assortment of frozen seafood was loaded onto cargo ships bound for Southeast Asia. According to the producer of these seafood products, Beihai Quality...

© Provided by Xinhua HAIKOU, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- At the ongoing 26th China (Hainan) International Winter Trade Fair for Tropical Agricultural Products held in Haikou, capital of south China's island province Hainan, a diverse array of products inclu...

tokyo - Japan and Malaysia signed a security assistance deal Saturday including a grant of 400 million yen ($2.8 million) to boost Malaysia's maritime security, as Asian nations seek to counter an increasingly assertive China.Japan will provide equip...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running...

KIEV -- Ukraine needs to implement 2,739 legal acts for becoming a member of the European Union (EU), Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Friday. "This is our scope of work for the coming years, which we shall do. We understand how to do it,"...

TOKYO -- A total of 77.2 percent of high school students in Japan who are scheduled to graduate next spring have received job offers by the end of October, a recent survey has found. The Japanese education ministry survey showed Friday that the figur...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia cracked down on 137 human trafficking and sexual exploitation cases in the first 10 months of 2023, up from 134 cases in the same period last year, the Interior Ministry said in a report on Saturday. According...

YANGON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar hosted the 26th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Ministerial Conference, according to a press release by Myanmar's Ministry of Information. The ministerial conference chaired by Myanmar's Union Minister of Investment...

This undated photo shows a 10th-11th century Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara sculpture to be returned to Cambodia from the United States. /XinhuaNew York's Metropolitan Museum (the Met) has agreed to return 14 looted cultural treasures in its possession ...

Editor's note: Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Vietnam from December 12 to 13 marked a new milestone in the relationship between the two countries. Both sides pledged to build a China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries ...

Editor's note: Chinese President Xi Jinping recently concluded a two-day state visit to Vietnam during which he engaged in crucial talks with Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Com...

Editor's note: Western media tries to paint China and Vietnam as mortal foes. But in truth, they are two neighbors with great commonality and shared interests. This video brings you an analysis of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Vietnam...

India and Egypt are among the nations that increased their liabilities last year Foreign debt to Russia jumped by nearly 9% in 2022, RBK reported on Friday, citing data fr...

China is willing to work with Cambodia to inherit and carry forward the "unbreakable" traditional friendship that the two countries have, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Pa...

Imagine this: you're a person living with HIV, and your household is facing financial hardship. You decide to run a small grocery business at home, keeping your status hidden. Despite accessing free HIV treatment, you cannot afford other essential he...

(Bangkok) - On the 11-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals, strongly condemn the Lao government's

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, bid farewell to General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong and his wife, Ngo T...

General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a welcome ceremony held by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, December 12, 2023....

Children wave Chinese and Vietnamese national flags during a welcome ceremony for China's President Xi Jinping at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, December 12, 2023. /CFPEditor's Note: Xin Ge, a special commentator on current affairs for CG...

BAC NINH, Vietnam, 3rd November, 2023 (WAM) -- A plant that treats domestic solid waste and industrial waste to generate electricity was inaugu...

HANOI, 2nd November, 2023 (WAM) -- Vietnam's aquatic product exports are expected to hit US$10 billion this year, the state news agency (VNA) q...