SYDNEY -- Voters went to the polls in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on Monday for the national general election. Over 3,500 candidates will compete for the 118 seats in the parliament with 53 political parties registering for this year's election. Throughou...

Beijing - China's foreign minister called for Myanmar's junta to hold talks with its opponents Sunday during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil.Beijing is one of the Myanmar military's few international al...

Can historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should they produce?I suspect policy-makers only rarely think of historians as a first port of call when seeking guidance. And historians, for the...

BAGAN, Myanmar, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn met here on Sunday, and both sides pledged to further enhance relations and cooperation in b...

BAGAN, Myanmar, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday exchanged views on the Myanmar issue with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn. Prak Sokhonn, also the special env...

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 3 (ANI): Vietnam recorded 512 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, media reported citing the health ministry. Yesterday, the cases were 730. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,748,639 with 43,087 deaths. Nation...

Seol [South Korea], July 3 (ANI): The Galaxy M11 has finally received Samsung's One UI 4.1 upgrade which tells you about how many handsets the company has already gone through because it is now patching low-end phones for two years ago. According to ...

BANGKOK - China's top diplomat on Saturday arrived on his first visit to Myanmar since the military seized power last year to attend a regional meeting that the government said was a recognition of its legitimacy and opponents protested as a violatio...

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 2 (ANI): Vietnam reported 730 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health. The cases brought the total tally to 10,748,127 with 43,087 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 9,699,357 COVID-19 patients, or over 9...

PHNOM PENH -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Saturday praised the Cambodian government for appealing for donations from the private sector and the Cambodian Red Cross to support landmine clearance. Donations from patriotic well-to-d...

PHNOM PENH, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Saturday praised the Cambodian government for appealing donations from the private sector and the Cambodian Red Cross to support landmine clearance. Donations from patrio...

PHNOM PENH, July 2 (Xinhua) -- As an active responder of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, Cambodia has witnessed earth-shaking changes in recent years, a Cambodian expert has said.Produced by Xinhua Global Service

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including actor Denzel Washington, gymnast Simone Biles and the late John McCain, the Arizona Republican with whom Bid...

PHNOM PENH, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has seen a spike in both drug arrests and seizures during the first half (H1) of 2022, said an Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP) report on Saturday. The authorities had nabbed 7,654 drug-related suspects during...

Biden "wronged" America and must be ousted to restore the nation to greatness and glory, says Jon Voight President Joe Biden must be impeached immediately, so Americans ca...

Beijing [China], July 2 (ANI): China's growing influence poses a threat to the dominance of the existing superpower country, the US and also threatens the peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region. "China has become the world's second-largest eco...

Washington - Laos, deeply indebted to China for large-scale infrastructure projects, is at high risk of defaulting on its obligations, according to experts, a situation exacerbated by the economic stress felt worldwide due to the coronavirus and the ...

JAKARTA -- Statistics Indonesia (BPS) on Friday announced that the inflation stood at 4.35 percent year on year in June, the highest in five years, exceeding the upper limit of Bank Indonesia's target range of 4 percent. The June inflation rate was c...

Phnom Penh [Cambodia], July 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will attend the seventh Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held on July 4 in Bagan, Myanmar, the Cambodian foreign ministry said in a p...

Hanoi [Vietnam], July 1 (ANI): Vietnam recorded 927 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up by 88 from Thursday, said the Ministry of Health. The infections brought the total tally to 10,747,397 with 43,087 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 9,689,663 COVID-19 ...

PHNOM PENH, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will attend the seventh Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting to be held on July 4 in Bagan, Myanmar, the Cambodian foreign ministry said in a press statemen...

PHNOM PENH, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's famed Angkor Archeological Park received 59,983 foreign tourists in the first half of 2022, up 10 times compared with the same period last year, said a press statement on Friday. The ancient park earned 2.42 ...

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...

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

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, 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...