A new project launched on Monday by two UN agencies aims to improve the diet of school-age children by supporting the development of nutrition standards for school meal programmes.In many countries school meals represent a significant portion of chil...

US President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China showed how one meeting can change the course of historyThis week marks the 50th anniversary of a meeting that culminated in one of the biggest, and perhaps most consequential, 'political earthquakes' o...

It was "the week that changed the world". On February 21 1972, Chinese leader Mao Zedong and US president Richard Nixon met in Beijing to reset their countries' relations, which had been frozen for the previous two decades.China needed protection fro...

BANGKOK -- Thailand on Monday raised its COVID-19 alert level to the second-highest tier following a rising number of new infections linked to the spread of the Omicron variant. The Ministry of Public Health raised the COVID-19 alert level from 3 to ...

HANOI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 46,880 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, down 320 cases from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 46,861 domestically transmitted ...

Hanoi [Vietnam], February 21 (ANI): China has suspended trade through the border gate in Vietnam's Lao Cai Province after COVID-19 cases emerged on its side, leaving hundreds of container trucks stranded. According to Vietnamese media, China was Viet...

BEIJING - At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations and China's position in the world in ways that were unimaginab

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The picturesque Swiss town of Davos is celebrated for hosting the World Economic Forum (WEF). It has also been a witness to China's endeavor to champion an open, cooperative and mutually beneficial world economy. On his f...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government has vowed to expedite a nationwide vaccination program for children aged 6 and over against COVID-19, starting on Monday. The program is part of the government's efforts to ensure that people of all e...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Timor-Leste beat host Cambodia 1-0 on Sunday to win Group A in the final group fixture of the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) U23 Championship 2022. With the Philippines edging Brunei 2-1 in an inconsequent tie of the ...

Myanmar's military government has criticized calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year's coup, which the junta has declared as "terrorist" groups.With little ...

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export logged a double-digit growth in the first 20 days of February due to the continued recovery in global demand from the COVID-19 pandemic, customs office data showed Monday. Export, which takes up about h...

DHAKA -- The Bangladeshi government will not extend its COVID-19 restrictions once they expire on Feb. 22 but mask mandates remain as usual. Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam made the announcement Sunday, saying the existing restrictions relat...

HANOI, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered a fresh record of 47,200 new COVID-19 infections on Sunday, an increase of 4,761 cases from the previous high reported on Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 63 loca...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Sunday dispatched the eighth batch of 219 peacekeepers, including 28 women, to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Speaking at the departure ceremony held at ...

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodia's health spokesperson has warned of four-figure numbers of daily COVID-19 cases, urging people to adhere to health protocols. The southeast Asian nation logged 736 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, six of which ...

washington - A major initiative to strengthen and cement America's ties with Asia and counterbalance China's expanding influence lacks robust trade incentives that are viewed as politically perilous in the United States, where protectionist sentiment...

Munich [Germany], February 20 (ANI): Reaffirming strong diplomatic relations with ASEAN nations, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday dismissed a recent poll that suggested that trust of the southeast Asian bloc had decreased in I...

HANOI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered 41,980 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, down 459 cases from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 41,968 domestically transmitte...

In the last three years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of North Macedonians who have become Bulgarian citizens. This is according to an official report of the Ministry of Justice, prepared and submitted specifically to the BGNES Agenc...

Some 69 States around the world currently criminalise homosexual relations between consenting adults. This means that in just this one area of human rights violations, two billion people are being discriminated against on a daily basis - a third of t...

HANOI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered an all-time record number of daily COVID-19 infections on Friday, with 42,439 cases, an increase of 6,239 cases from Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. The new infections, logged in 63 localit...

HONG KONG -- The office of the commissioner of the Chinese foreign ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday strongly disapproved of and firmly rejected the 2021 annual report on the implementation of the common foreig...

washington - China continues to be the top global source of counterfeit products, but it is far from the only major concern regarding pirated goods, according to the annual notorious-markets list released Thursday by the office of the U.S. trade repr...

HANOI, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered a new record daily number of 36,200 COVID-19 infections on Thursday, an increase of 1,463 from Wednesday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, including 36,190 domestically transmitted...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran discovered its fate at the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup in Uzbekistan on Thursday. - Sports news - The Iranian team has been drawn in Group A along with host Uzbekistan, Qatar and Turkmenistan.Korea Republic, the defending champio...