The Afghan Taliban tightened their territorial stranglehold around Kabul on Saturday, as refugees from the insurgents' relentless offensive flooded the capital and US Marines returned to oversee emergency evacuations.With the country's second- and th...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) announced Friday night that another 65 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant were found, raising the total number of such cases in the Southeast Asian nation to 494. Laboratory tes...

HANOI, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 9,180 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 9,150 local infections and 30 imported cases, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 255,748, with 5,088 d...

As headlines proclaim the "end" of "America's longest war," President Joe Biden's withdrawal of the remaining U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan is being covered by some in the news media as though it means the end of the conflict - or eve

by Xinhua writer He Fei BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Several human rights groups based in London and New York recently reported so-called human rights abuses linked to Chinese business operations abroad, smearing Belt and Road projects and China's ou...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Friday confirmed a daily record of 423 COVID-19 cases, in which 67 were imported, pushing the national total caseload to 84,262, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Twenty more fatalities had ...

Just weeks away from completing its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the United States is sending thousands of combat troops back to Kabul in a last-ditch attempt to move diplomatic personnel and Afghan allies out of harm's way.The move, announc...

HANOI, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 9,667 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 9,653 locally transmitted and 14 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 246,568, with 4,813 de...

"Nowhere is safe." As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back t

New Delhi, (Delhi) [India], August 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): Asia Innovations Group (AIG) today announced the fifth anniversary of its pioneering live social video app, Uplive. Celebratory competitions in the Uplive app will commemorate the occasion, markin...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Lao Ministry of Industry and Commerce is aiming to increase the value of exports by 8-10 percent from 2021-2025. Local daily Vientiane Times reported on Thursday that the goal was announced by Minister of Industry a...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh said donated COVID-19 vaccines from China and other countries would enable more free vaccinations to be offered and speed up progress towards immunization targets. Vaccinations have...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Laos' National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on Thursday reported 202 COVID-19 cases and one new death over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 9,363 cases and nine deaths. Deputy...

New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Union Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Thursday called for identifying the areas where human-elephant conflict exists and work on a policy to decrease it. On World Elephant Day, Environment Minister Bhupendr...

WELLINGTON -- The New Zealand government unveiled on Thursday a framework for re-opening borders next year and moving to an individualized risk-based model for quarantine-free travel, while using the second half of 2021 to vaccinate as many New Zeala...

In 1973, Australian workers at the joint Australian-U.S. low-frequency communications base at North West Cape in Western Australia were unhappy with their working conditions.They were talking about a possible strike to resolve the issue.Little did th...