Hanoi [Vietnam], December 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The Vietnamese government has approved the resumption of regular commercial flights between Vietnam and international destinations which are highly safe from COVID-19 since January 1, 2022. According to the ...

HANOI, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Vietnamese government has approved the resumption of regular commercial flights between Vietnam and international destinations which are highly safe from COVID-19 since Jan. 1, 2022. According to the latest notice by th...

Editor's note: Images of seized items available to download via hightail.The AFP High Volume Drug Crime Teams are targeting syndicates attempting to send millions of parcels of drugs through the post this festive and celebratory season.Drug trafficke...

Washington [US], December 10 (ANI): China continues to have strategic and tactical interest in government and private sector organizations in Southeast Asia through its cyber-espionage operations for a range of objectives intended to support a deepen...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 10 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam recorded 14,839 new infections of COVID-19, of which 20 were imported and 14,819 were recorded domestically on Friday, down 481 cases compared to the previous day, in 57 provinces and cities nation...

Agartala (Tripura) [India], December 10 (ANI): Principal Secretary Tripura Industries and Commerce Prashant Kumar Goyal on Friday said that more than 50 investors have shown their interest to invest in several sectors of Tripura and subsequently inke...

JAKARTA -- The death toll from the eruption of Indonesia's Semeru volcano has risen to 45 after rescuers recovered two more victims in Kampung Renteng hamlet of Lumajang district in East Java province, an official said Friday. Meanwhile, nine people ...

HANOI, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,839 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 14,819 locally transmitted and 20 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including 1,...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's largest COVID-19 hotspot Ho Chi Minh City on Friday started administering extra vaccine shots for prioritized groups, being the first locality in the Southeast Asian country to do so upon the health min...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Friday ordered armed forces across the country to collect all U.S. made military weapons and materials to keep in caches or to have them burned down. The move came afte...

VIENTIANE -- Lao Ministry of Health on Friday recorded 1,644 local COVID-19 transmissions, the highest daily infection ever, taking the total tally to 86,148. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control reported 1,644 locally...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The second phase of the China-aided rural water supply project in Cambodia has come to an end, constructing 964 pumping wells and 54 community ponds in 10 provinces, officials said here on Thursday.Speaking at a ceremo...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Lao Ministry of Health on Friday recorded 1,644 local COVID-19 transmissions, the highest daily infection ever, taking the total tally to 86,148. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control repo...

New York [US], December 10 (ANI): As many as 293 media workers were put behind bars globally in 2021, said the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "CPJ's 2021 prison census found that the number of reporters jailed for their work h...

© Provided by Xinhua by Xinhua writers Zhao Cailin, Ding YiquanKUNMING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- At about 9:26 p.m. on Dec. 3, the first train on the China section of the China-Laos Railway arrived at Mohan railway station in the southwestern province of ...

KAMPONG CHHNANG, Cambodia -- The second phase of the China-aided rural water supply project in Cambodia has come to an end, constructing 964 pumping wells and 54 community ponds in 10 provinces, officials said here on Thursday. Speaking at a ceremony...

by Xinhua writers Zhao Cailin, Ding Yiquan KUNMING, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- At about 9:26 p.m. on Dec. 3, the first train on the China section of the China-Laos Railway arrived at Mohan railway station in the southwestern province of Yunnan, less than fiv...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 27 percent of the construction work on the 1.5-billion-U.S.-dollar new Phnom Penh international airport has been completed despite the COVID-19 crisis, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Th...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 15,311 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 15,300 locally transmitted and 11 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localit...

HANOI, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,311 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, including 15,300 locally transmitted and 11 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including 1...

JINAN, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos freight train service linking east China's Shandong Province with Laos started service on Thursday, local authorities said. The first outbound train departed from the China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Coopera...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's economic growth is projected to reach 2.2 percent in 2021, impeded by slow growth in services including tourism, and in construction and real estate, the World Bank said in a press release on Thursday. Other ...

KAMPONG CHHNANG, Cambodia, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- The second phase of the China-aided rural water supply project in Cambodia has come to an end, constructing 964 pumping wells and 54 community ponds in 10 provinces, officials said here on Thursday. Speak...

HONG KONG -- Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, an instigator of Hong Kong riots, and two others were convicted on Thursday of taking part in an unauthorized assembly in Victoria Park in Hong Kong last year. The District Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrati...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 9 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam recorded 14,599 new COVID-19 cases, of which 4 were imported and 14,595 were recorded domestically in 58 provinces and cities from 4 pm on Tuesday to 4 pm on Wednesday. In the past 24 hours, 24,737 ...

The People's Bank of China is encouraging Chinese banks to lend more to businesses and consumers by cutting the proportion of deposits that they have to ho

Washington [US], December 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has introduced a trade embargo on "sensitive items" against Cambodia over the country's human rights violations, corruption and the increasing influence of China in the country, the US Depa...

Washington [US], December 8 (ANI/Sputnik): The US State Department said in a statement on Wednesday that Counselor Derek Chollet will travel to Cambodia and Indonesia on December 8-13 to hold discussions on key regional issues, including the burgeoni...

HANOI, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- President of the Lao National Assembly (NA) Saysomphone Phomvihane on Wednesday wrapped up an official visit to Vietnam from Dec. 6 to 8 to promote bilateral ties between the two countries. In the Vietnamese capital city Han...

HANOI, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,599 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 14,595 locally transmitted and four imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, includin...

In November, the world's first global citizens' assembly - made up of 100 people chosen by lottery from around the world - declared its recommended responses to the climate crisis at the UN climate conference

by Xinhua writer Ma Qian BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States has long been habitually touting itself as the "beacon of democracy," yet as the world has increasingly come to realize, America's democratic system is only in form, not in substa...

"The U.S. became a very militarized state bureaucracy with a high peacetime military budget, and this led it to consistently exaggerate security threats, coupled with the related claim that military approaches to foreign policy challenges continued t...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 8 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam's Ministry of Transport (MoT) has proposed the pilot resumption of regular international flights carrying international passengers to Vietnam from December 15. In a recent report submitted to Vietna...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The public and private sectors are making plans to reopen Laos to fully vaccinated tourists in 2022, and details regarding quarantine upon entry are still being debated. The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism o...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States has fought a lot of wars and is said to have only had less than 20 years of peace in its history. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter described the United States as "the most warlike nation in the histo...

WASHINGTON/GENEVA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Open any book on American history, and hardly can you find a long period of time when the country was not part of a conflict. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter simply referred to it as "the most warlike nation i...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The body of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Ranariddh was cremated on Wednesday in an elaborate Buddhist ceremony at a park next to the Royal Palace in the capital of Phnom Penh. Ranariddh, president of Funcinpec Party and ch...

by Xu Chi GENEVA, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States has not learned the proper lesson from its failed wars, Richard Falk, emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University, told Xinhua in a recent interview via video link. Falk had f...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 8 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Vietnam recorded 13,840 cases of COVID-19 in 59 localities on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health. Ho Chi Minh city continued to report the highest number of infections with 965, followed by Can Th...

The surprise Japanese attack on the US fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was a tactical victory but a strategic defeat, clearing the way for US entry into WWII. History teaches that it was inevitable, but was it?Over 2,400 Americans ...

JAKARTA -- The death toll in the eruption of Semeru volcano in Lumajang district, Indonesia's East Java province, rose to 34 as of Tuesday afternoon, while 16 others are still under search, an official said. Four evacuation teams are currently carryi...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday met with visiting Myanmar's Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin, discussing bilateral cooperation and ASEAN issues, said a Cambodian foreign m...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 13,840 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 13,835 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern locali...

HANOI, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 13,840 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 13,835 locally transmitted and five imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, including ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen will visit Myanmar on Jan. 7 and 8, his personal spokesman said here on Tuesday. Myanmar's foreign minister U Wunna Maung Lwin brought an invitation letter from Commander-i...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 7 (ANI/VOVWORLD): Hanoi plans to ban motorbikes in core districts after 2025, five years earlier than an earlier plan, in order to reduce traffic congestion and emissions. The ban will apply to all districts within the third...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) --Cambodia on Monday inaugurated a Chinese-built 96.5-km-long and 11-meter-wide National Road No. 11, linking Prey Veng and Tboung Khmum provinces in the country's southeastern region.The road was developed by China Road a...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Cambodia has lifted an entry ban for passengers arriving from 10 African countries, introduced to prevent the spread of the novel Omicron coronavirus variant, the regional online-media Khmer Times repo...

HANOI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 14,591 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, including 14,558 locally transmitted and 33 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were reported in southern localities, ...

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported five new imported cases of COVID-19 on Monday, taking the total tally to 12,466. The newly reported cases all involved mutant strains. A total of 60 cases have been reported in the ...

HANOI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Border guard forces of northern Vietnam's Dien Bien province have arrested a drug trafficker and seized 120,000 pills of synthetic drugs, Vietnam News Agency reported Monday. Specifically, the authorities caught red-handed a...

PREY VENG, Cambodia, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday inaugurated a Chinese-built 96.5-km-long and 11-meter-wide National Road No. 11, linking Prey Veng and Tboung Khmum provinces in the country's southeastern region. The road was developed by C...