BANGKOK - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is visiting Myanmar on what he says is a trip meant to restore peace after a Feb. 1 military takeover but that critics say will just legitimize the army's seizure of power.Live video on Hun Sen's official Fa...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is preparing to place three prefectures here under a quasi-state of emergency on Friday amid a spike in COVID-19 cases stemming from U.S. military personnel based in the prefectures spreading the virus. ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will start a visit to Myanmar on Friday for talks with its military rulers, triggering protests across the conflict-torn nation by coup opponents who fear his trip will provide more legitimacy t...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Construction of a new international airport in northern Laos' Bokeo province is nearing completion and the airport is scheduled to be opened for use by March 2022. Lao National Radio on Wednesday quoting Deputy Governor ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Laos has detected its first case of Omicron variant of COVID-19, the National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control announced Thursday. Director-general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control...

HANOI, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 16,472 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, including 16,417 locally transmitted and 55 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the high...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Apsara National Authority (ANA) said Thursday it has been working to consolidate the central tower of Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat, which is also known as the Bakan tower. Hourn Sokcheat, technical officer of ...

PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been accused of "going rogue" on the eve of his two-day trip to Myanmar starting Friday, where he says fruitful talks with the junta could end the bloodshed that erupted almost 12 months ago when the ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia had reported only 1,903 dengue fever cases in 2021, a sharp decrease compared to 2020 when some 11,977 cases were recorded, a health official said on Thursday. Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted throug...

China is renaming disputed locations in Asia to bolster its territorial claims and build evidence to support those claims in case any sovereignty disagreements land in court, experts say.Beijing has used new names and other map coding to back its cla...

SYDNEY -- Australia marked 2021 as its coldest year in almost a decade after the La Nina phenomenon caused wetter and cooler conditions across the country. The Bureau of Meteorology said on Thursday that summary and contextual information regarding t...

HANOI, VIETNAM - The Dec. 14 sentencing of Vietnamese journalist Pham Thi Doan Trang, commonly known as Pham Doan Trang, to nine years in prison for "spreading anti-state propaganda" has angered members of the public here as well as observers outside...

© Provided by Xinhua KUNMING, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway had operated 116 cargo trains via Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, as of Jan. 3, which transported more than 49,800 tonnes of goods worth about 676 million yuan (106 ...

ISLAMABAD -- Two soldiers and two terrorists were killed in clashes between security forces and militants in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, an army statement said Wednesday night. The troops conducted intelligence-based operations ...

HANOI -- Vietnam reported 17,017 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 16,997 locally transmitted and 20 imported, according to the health ministry. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of infections with 2,...

HANOI, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 17,017 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, including 16,997 locally transmitted and 20 imported, according to the health ministry. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of i...

The UN Security Council already has five new non-permanent members, namely Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates. They officially took office yesterday after being elected in June.The mandates of Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The confirmed cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Cambodia have risen to 94 after nine new infections were detected, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said here on Wednesday. "Nine new Omicron cases were confirme...

SINGAPORE -- China will provide an anchor mechanism for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world's largest free trade pact which came into force on Jan. 1, a Singaporean scholar said recently. As the world's second largest ec...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The China-Laos Railway has yielded fruitful outcomes in passenger and cargo transportation since it launched operations a month ago, marking a major step forward for regional connectivity and economic...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's anti-drug police have arrested a Vietnamese man for allegedly trafficking, storing and processing over 181 kg of illicit drugs, a Phnom Penh Municipal police spokesman said on Tuesday. Luu Tung Huy, 25, was c...

SAN FRANCISCO - China's economy will increasingly rely on state investment, high-tech development and domestic consumption - with less input from its past staple of export manufacturing - as it stands to overtake the United States in the coming decad...

HANOI, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,861 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 14,829 locally transmitted and 32 imported, according to the Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with highest number of infe...

The Bolsheviks sought to erase all street names associated with the tsarist regime and started to rename places in order to commemorate leading communist officials and heroes. That's how many cities got streets named not only after Lenin, but also af...

BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- China-Laos Railway, which opened to traffic a month ago, has handled about 670,000 passengers and 170,000 tonnes of cargo, the Chinese railway operator said Monday. For the section in China, the railway has handled up to 3...

HANOI, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,936 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 15,916 locally transmitted and 20 imported infections, according to its Ministry of Health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the highest number of infectio...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government got 5.07 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from tax and customs in 2021, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Monday. Hun Sen said the General Department of Taxation (GDT) earned 2.78 bill...

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]/ Santa Clara (California) [US], January 3 (ANI/PRNewswire): Synapse Design, a QuEST Global company, today announced the company has joined the Design Center Alliance (DCA) program of TThe TSMC DCA program focuses on chip...

The South Korean president promised to seek an ?irreversible path to peace? with North KoreaPresident Moon Jae-in says meaningful peace with North Korea can?t be achieved without some kind of formal agreement. A peace deal between the two nations was...

Beijing [China], January 3 (ANI): The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which came into force on Saturday for the majority of its 15 Asia-Pacific economies, will be challenged by Indo-Pacific geopolitics, according to a report. The ...

By Lee Kah WhyeSingapore, January 3 (ANI): Last year witnessed China receiving a smaller share of foreign investments compared to previous years, a trend that started with former US President Trump's trade war with China. Although his successor, Joe ...

Aston Villa's Trezeguet produced an outrageous dive at Brentford in the Premier League on Sunday, earning widespread criticism after clutching his face and collapsing to the floor despite barely being touchedEgypt international Trezeguet has been bra...

Paris [France], January 2 (ANI): Journalists' detention set a "new record" in 2021 and out of 488 detained, 127 were reported from China, who topped the list. A Paris-based international group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said that a record 488 jo...

Hanoi [Vietnam], January 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Vietnam reported 16,948 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including 16,914 locally transmitted and 34 imported, according to its ministry of health. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi reported 2,045 cases, the highest i...

Members of a China-centered Asian trade bloc that takes effect Jan. 1 are hoping the initiative, encompassing about a third of world trade and business activity, will help power their recoveries from the pandemic.The 15-member Regional and Comprehens...

Hanoi [Vietnam], January 2 (ANI): Vietnam on Saturday suggested China restore customs clearance at border gates as cargo congestion is piling up due to COVID-19 measures currently imposed by Guangxi which have impacted the bilateral trade. Officials ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A total of 831 people was killed and 8,388 injured in road accidents in Laos in 2021, according to the latest report by the Traffic Police Department of the Lao Ministry of Public Security. There were 5,576 accidents in ...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), taking effect on Saturday, shines rays of hope through the dark clouds of unilateralism and protectionism.Consisting of 15 Asia-Pacific countrie...