by Zhang Jianhua, Phouthaphone Sirivong VIENTIANE, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Two China-Laos friendship schools, built with assistance from China Southern Power Grid (CSG), are transforming education in northern Laos. Poppy-replacement plantations line the ...

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Hanoi [Vietnam], December 21 (ANI): Due to tightened COVID-19 measures and technical difficulties, thousands of container trucks have been stuck at Vietnam's border gates with China in the northern province of Lang Son. Ngoc Thanh and Pham Chieu, wri...

HANOI, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,325 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 16,316 locally transmitted and nine imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the localities, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi logged the highest numbe...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Vietnam signed seven documents on Tuesday to further boost their bilateral relations and cooperation, a senior Cambodian official said. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and visiting Vietnames...

VIENTIANE, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 cases in Laos has increased to 100,524 on Tuesday after 1,128 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to the Lao Ministry of Health. Laos has logged a total of 1,128 new cases over...

SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export logged a double-digit growth in the first 20 days of December thanks to global demand recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, customs office data showed Tuesday. The outbound shipment amounted to 36.9 bill...

PHNOM PENH -- The election for the seventh-term Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will bring long-term peace, political stability, further development and prosperity to the city, a senior Cambodian off...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 20 (ANI/VOVWORLD): There are 1,555,455 infected with COVID-19 in Vietnam. According to the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, from 16:00 on December 19 to 16:00 on December 20, 14,977 new cases of COVID-19 infection were registe...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], December 20 (ANI): Online gambling industry aided by illicit Chinese capital network thrives in Cambodia creating law and order problem. Gangs have escaped or been rescued from what are in effect scam sweatshops. The gangs that...

HONG KONG -- Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam will pay a duty visit to Beijing from Monday night to Dec. 23, the HKSAR government said in a statement on Monday. During her stay in Beijing, Lam will...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia did not register a single COVID-19 fatality on Monday, the first time since the third wave broke out in February, Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said. "Today is the first time in 10 months that...

New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): A Parliamentary delegation from Vietnam led by the chairman of its National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue called on President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Sunday. Welcoming the delegation to India, the Pres...

Hanoi [Vietnam], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 16,110 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 16,093 locally transmitted and 17 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the localities, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi logged the ...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia confirmed two more cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, bringing the total number of such cases in the southeast Asian nation to four, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement Saturday midnight. One ...

Hong Kong, December 19 (ANI): China has repeatedly employed cyberattacks against Southeast Asian countries because of their claims on the South China Sea or their inability to give Chinese projects green signals in their respective countries, accordi...

HANOI, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,895 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, including 15,883 locally transmitted and 12 imported. According to the Ministry of Health, most of the community cases were recorded in southern localitie...

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia inaugurated a China-funded national stadium in the northern suburbs of the capital Phnom Penh on Saturday with a sports parade, martial arts, and traditional dances. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun ...

New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Dr Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharat Biotech along with Suchitra Ella Joint Managing Director, Bharat Biotech, met Professor, Dr Tran Van Thuan, Deputy Minister of Health, Government of the Soc...

KUNMING, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province reported strong trade growth in the first 11 months of this year. Yunnan's foreign trade totaled 274.3 billion yuan (about 43 billion U.S. dollars) from January to November, up 18.9 perce...

New York [US], December 18 (ANI): Authorities in Vietnam must immediately release four activists jailed this week for spreading anti-State propaganda, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday. Over a three-day period, prominent human rights ...

Here is a fast take on what the international community has been up to this past week, as seen from the United Nations perch.Afghanistan's economyU.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths appealed for flexible and sustained international funding befor...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Ties between Vietnam and India are based on Hanoi's cultural values of patriotism and compassion and New Delhi's philosophy of equality, peace and humanism, springing from Buddhism and Hinduism, according to Viet...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Foreign Minister Jaishankar presented a photograph of former Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh to country's National Assembly President Vuong Dinh. "Presented a photograph of President Ho Chi Minh at Sapru house in 1...

TOKYO -- At least 24 people have been confirmed dead from a fire that broke out in a medical clinic in Japan's Osaka prefecture on Friday, the police said, adding that they are investigating the incident as a suspected arson. The fire broke out withi...

KAMPONG CHHNANG, Cambodia, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Friday broke ground on a China-aided shooting range at the Royal Gendarmerie Training Center here. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh and Chinese ambassador to...

HANOI, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,236 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 15,215 locally transmitted and 21 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, including 1,...

New Delhi (India), December 17 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that the trade between India and Vietnam have crossed the mark of 10 billion US dollars in 2020 and it is likely to exceed 10 billion this year. "Our trade ha...

New Delhi (India), December 17 (ANI): Asserting that India's Act East policy is a guiding partner and helped in the larger Indo-Pacific approach, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that from the Indian perspective, Vietnam is a key...

NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 34,726,049 on Friday, as 7,447 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 391 deaths from the pandemic since Thursday m...

New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): A Parliamentary delegation from Vietnam led by the chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue called on Vice President Venkaiah Naidu here on Friday. "A Parliamentary delegation from the Socialist Republic ...