by Chanthaphaphone Mixayboua, Zhang Jianhua VIENTIANE, April 18 (Xinhua) -- People celebrated the Lao New Year Festival in a more restrained way than usual this year due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Celebration activities in the Lao capital Vientian...

COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's largest business group Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on Sunday opposed a decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to close the stock market for five working days. By shutting down the stock market, potential sellers are ...

HANOI, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 14,660 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 3,814 from Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, which are all domestically transmitted, were recorded in 60 cities and provinces. Vie...

PHNOM PENH, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A summit between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States is rescheduled for May 12-13 in the U.S. capital city of Washington, according to an ASEAN chair's press statement released lat...

Brussels [Belgium], April 16 (ANI): After decades of support for globalization and free trade, the European Union (EU), in recent times has started adopting an inward approach which is impacting its trade with south-east Asia in particular, a media r...

HANOI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 18,474 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 1,602 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, which are all domestically transmitted, are reported in 62 cities and provinces. T...

CHENGDU, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A freight train loaded with Dell-branded computer parts departed from Chengdu International Railway Port Friday in the southwestern province of Sichuan, headed for Vietnam. This is the first direct train from a western C...

Vietnamese police arrested the country's deputy foreign minister on Thursday for allegedly receiving bribes connected to a repatriation flight program during the pandemic, officials said.In recent months the communist nation has ramped up an anti-cor...

PHNOM PENH, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Saturday inaugurated a large couple-statue in the southwestern coastal province of Preah Sihanouk. Erected at a roundabout in Prey Nop district, the copper statue, wei...

© Provided by Xinhua The Amity Foundation, a Chinese voluntary organization, has since 2019 provided scholarships to students and helped build basic infrastructure such as toilets and handwashing facilities at some Cambodian primary sch

TOKYO -- Japan's population logged the steepest fall on record, dropping by 644,000 to just over 125.5 million in 2021, government statistics showed Friday. The large drop reflects a plunge in the number of foreign residents due to strict border cont...

New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): Countries importing textile products from Sri Lanka have now started moving towards Indian exporters as Sri Lanka continues to reel under its worst economic crisis, said the Ministry of Textile official on Friday. S...

New Delhi [India], April 15 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a phone call with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam on Friday and discussed a range of bilateral and global issues. During the phone call, the PM...

HANOI, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 20,076 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, down 2,936 from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health. The new infections, which are all domestically transmitted, were recorded in 61 cities and provinces. The...

HANOI, 15th April, 2022 (WAM) -- The Vietnamese Health Ministry has started issuing vaccine passports from today, 15th April, the Vietnam News...

NANJING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- A new container liner route linking Taicang Port in east China's Jiangsu Province and Vietnam was launched on Friday, according to the port's administrative committee. Two ships, with respective capacities of 1,100 TEUs ...

© Provided by Xinhua PHNOM PENH, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia begins to celebrate the traditional New Year festival after muted celebrations in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. People celebrate the holiday by participating in variou...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

April 14, 2022 - Hanoi, Vietnam - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a successful visit to Indonesia and Vietnam. The visit focused on deepening our countries' already strong relation...

DHAKA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- After two years of muted festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people from all walks of life in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Thursday participated in a mega colourful procession featuring evocative masks, floats, and ...

BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday held a phone conversation with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son over bilateral ties. China and Vietnam are close neighbors and both of them are pu...

Each time you drag a new item of clothing into a virtual shopping basket, you may be supporting an industry responsible for 10% of global CO₂ emissions - not to mention widespread social harm. Fast fashion, the industry trend which whisks the lates...

HANOI, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 23,012 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down 1,611 from Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Health. The new infections, all domestically transmitted, were recorded in 62 cities and provinces. The Vietna...

"If you remember the '60s, you weren't really there". This famous quip says much about our rose-tinted nostalgia for the decade. The fun-loving hedonism of Woodstock and Beatlemania may be etched into cultural memory, but Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe...

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan is ready to join hands with China to deepen bilateral cooperation and elevate relations between the two countries to a higher level, which is the voice of over 200 million Pakistani people, the country's newly-elected Prime Mini...

HANOI, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam started its vaccination program for children aged five to 11 on Thursday, Vietnam News Agency reported. The northern province of Quang Ninh is the first locality in the country to inoculate its children in this age...

HONG KONG -- Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam on Wednesday said the three-day mass rapid antigen test (RAT) exercise had achieved its intended goals of better understanding the overall COVID-19 situati...

VIENTIANE, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith delivered a Lao New Year message on Wednesday, encouraging the Lao people to overcome the various challenges facing the nation. "We have been able to maintain political stability and s...

HANOI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 24,623 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up by 1,819 cases from Tuesday, said its Ministry of Health. The new infections are all domestically transmitted. Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hots...

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], April 13 (ANI/PR Newswire): Dyninno Travel, which operates International Travel Network, Aviajet, TravelTech, Asaptickets, and other travel brands, has reported its 2021 operating results. The gross bookings of Dyninno Tra...

HANOI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- More than 16.9 million people aged 15 and above in Vietnam were adversely affected by COVID-19 in the first quarter of this year, down 7.8 million compared to the same period last year, Vietnam News Agency cited a recent r...

HANOI, 9th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Saturday reported 34,140 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including two imported cases, the...

April 9, 2022 - Brussels, Belgium - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that she will be travelling to Indonesia and Vietnam from April 9 to 14. While visiting these two strategic pa...

HANOI, 6th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam and New Zealand affirmed their commitment to deepening the two countries' agriculture and trade relati...

HANOI, 31st March, 2022 (WAM) -- A forum to promote foreign investment into Vietnam themed "A new era of digital transformation and green tran...

DUBAI, 18th March, 2022 (WAM) -- Dr. Abdulrahman Al Awar, Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation received Nguyn Mnh Tun, the Ambassador...

DUBAI, 14th March, 2022 (WAM) -- Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, has visited the Vietnam Pavili...

DUBAI, 8th March, 2022 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, today m...