HANOI, 1st July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnamese representatives reaffirmed their country's commitments to develop blue and sustainable oceans when a...

MANILA -- Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos swore in career diplomat Luis Enrique Manalo as the country's new foreign secretary on Friday. Before his appointment, Manalo, 69, was the permanent Philippine representative to the United Nat...

BANTEAY MEANCHEY, Cambodia, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Friday released more than 1 million baby fish and 200,000 young shrimps into a reservoir in Phnom Srok district in the country's northwestern part to cel...

© Provided by Xinhua Cambodia's total exports rose 34.5 percent year-on-year during the January-May period this year, and traditional growth drivers, especially garments, travel goods and footwear products, continued to expand, while newer manufactu...

Kathmandu [Nepal], June 30 (ANI): India's new ambassador to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava presented his credentials to the President of Nepal Bidya Devi Bhandari at a ceremony held at President's Office on Thursday. Ambassador Srivastava also paid a court...

Some $1.14 billion of taxpayers' money will be spent on light tanks produced by General Dynamics Land Systems The US Army has approved a new design for a light tank, and

VIENTIANE, June 30 (Xinhua) -- General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith has called on state authorities to work with the Vientiane Logistics Park (VLP), set up at the Lao end of...

HANOI, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam saw nearly 602,000 international arrivals in the first six months of this year, a seven-fold increase from the same period last year, thanks to its reopening of tourism activities and resumption of international fli...

HANOI, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A total of 5,684 traffic accidents occurred from January to June in Vietnam, killing 3,286 people, severely injuring 1,956, and slightly injuring 1,740, according to the country's Traffic Police Department on Thursday. The ...

VIENTIANE, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Lao nationals working in other countries are sending annual average remittances of 412 million U.S. dollars back home, representing 2.3 percent of the country's GDP, local daily Vientiane Times on Thursday quoted a repo...

PHNOM PENH, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's technology-based startups have grown rapidly in recent years, with the supporting ecosystem boosted by policies and infrastructure geared toward their development, said a new report released by the Asian Dev...

The early morning sun peaks over the leafy Thai hillside as a crew of 20 migrant workers toss fresh rice seedlings into the soaked paddy fields, signifying the start of the rice season in northern Thailand's Chiang Mai Province.Speed and agility are ...

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak on Wednesday told local exporters to reap the benefits of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact, which entered into force on Jan. 1, 2022. In a speech to some 350 ...

BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Wang Chen, vice chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, met with Tran Thanh Man, Standing Vice Chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly (NA), via video link on Wednesday. Speaking from Beijing,...

PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak on Wednesday told local exporters to reap the benefits of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact, which entered into force on Jan. 1, 2022. In a s...

PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has confirmed 10 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours after 52 days of zero cases, the health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. Eight were found in the community and two were detected on inbou...

VIENTIANE, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Some 5,833,738 people have had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, equal to 79.5 percent of the total population, according to the Lao Ministry of Health. As of Monday, a total of 5,136,478 people have had a second dose, ac...

HANOI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.44 percent year on year in the first six months of this year, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Wednesday. In the first half of 2022, items posting the most ...

HANOI -- Vietnam recorded a year-on-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 7.72 percent in the second quarter of 2022, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said Wednesday. It is the highest second-quarter GDP growth recorded by the country in the...

PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia sets July 23, 2023 as the date for the seventh National Assembly election, according to a decision signed by Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Wednesday. "Minister in charge of the Council of Ministers, ...

HANOI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam attracted an estimated foreign investment of 14.03 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, down 8.9 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment on Wednesday. During the pe...

HANOI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded a year-on-year gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 7.72 percent in the second quarter of 2022, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said Wednesday. It is the highest second-quarter GDP growth recorded by ...

PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia reported new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday after having recorded zero cases for 52 consecutive days, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Tuesday night. In a special audio message to the nation, Hun Sen said ...

YANGON -- Zheng Zhihong, Minister Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy to Myanmar on Tuesday attended the launching ceremony of Year 2022 Donation Project to Mary Chapman School for the Deaf. At the ceremony, Zheng said this year, the embassy will provi...

HANOI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 769 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up by 132 from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 37 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi w...

GENEVA, 28th June, 2022 (WAM) -- As a candidate for the membership of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for 2023 - 2025, Vietnam will continue...

PHNOM PENH, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) on Tuesday marked the 71st anniversary of its birth, vowing to protect peace and political stability for sustainable socio-economic development in the Southeast Asian country. ...

Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): NBC has confirmed that it will air a primetime special 'Ukraine: Answering the Call' to raise funds and awareness for the war in Ukraine, featuring an address by president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 3 at 7 p.m. 'Ukrain...

Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): A US working group will engage with partners, including Ecuador, Panama, Senegal, Taiwan and Vietnam to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, curtail the global trade of IUU fish and fish products,...

HANOI, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 637 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, up by 80 from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted, reported in 39 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital...

VIENTIANE, June 27 (Xinhua) -- An additional 161 dengue fever cases were reported across Laos in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally in the country to 4,087, according to the Lao Ministry of Health on Monday. The Lao capital Vientiane logged the hi...

HANOI, 27th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam jumped 39 steps to become the 62nd best country worldwide for quality of life in 2021, according to a...

Vietnam is ready to boost rice exports should India impose a ban, Hanoi says Vietnam is prepared to increase rice exports if the world's largest exporter, India, imposes a...

HANOI, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 557 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 100 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new infections were domestically transmitted in 32 provinces and cities. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi w...

Polo, Illinois - Before the 2016 presidential election, Illinois farmer Brian Duncan looked to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the United States and Asian countries, to boost demand for his crops, and in particular, prices...

HANOI, 13th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam needs immediate solutions to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) and strengthen its sources, ...

HANOI, 10th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam was placed 68th out of the 120 countries in the Open Budget Survey (OBS) 2021 recently released by the...

HANOI, 8th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is joining international efforts to protect the blue ocean in response to World Ocean Day 2022, Vietnam...

HANOI, 7th June, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam International Defence Expo 2022 is scheduled to take place in Hanoi in December. According to Vietnam ...

BRUSSELS, 3rd June, 2022 (WAM) -- Ambassador Nguyen Van Thao, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the EU, has met with EU Commissioner for ...

HANOI, 26th May, 2022 (WAM) -- All airline members of Vietnam Airlines Group, Vietnam Airlines, Pacific Airlines and VASO, will offer more tha...

HANOI, 19th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has reported 1,716 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including one imported case, taking the ...

HANOI, 13th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has successfully maintained fiscal, external and financial stability, Resident Representative of the In...

HANOI, 9th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Monday announced 2,269 new infections of COVID-19, according to the country's Ministry of Health. Ac...