VIENTIANE, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Lao authorities have issued a warning to stop illegal employment agencies sending Lao workers to other countries without permission from the government. The Lao Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare issued a warning advis...

Washington - A bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits won final approval in the Senate on Tuesday, ending a brief stalemate over the measure that had infuriated advocates and inspired so...

Beijing [China], August 3 (ANI): Amid the heightened tensions between China and the US over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China has decided to avoid meeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeti...

New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is set to visit Cambodia from August 3-4 to attend the ASEAN-India ministerial meeting in Phnom Penh during which he will take stock of the ASEAN-India partnership. "External ...

HANOI, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported a total of 136,075 cases of dengue fever in the first seven months of this year, tripling the figure of the same period last year, the country's Ministry of Health said Tuesday. The cases were mostly recorde...

HANOI, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 2,017 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, up by 640 from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the new cases, 2,000 were locally transmitted and the rest were imported. The newly reported infections ...

BEIJING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting, ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting, East Asia Summit

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia imported oil products worth 1.91 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of 2022, up 25 percent from 1.52 billion dollars over the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Cust...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has lowered its economic growth projection for 2022 to 5.4 percent, down from its earlier forecast of 5.6 percent, due to the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a senior official said here on Tuesday. Minis...

Australia faces many global and regional challenges - the human and economic toll of the pandemic, the rippling effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, troubled relations with Pacific Island countries. But the most consequential of all is US-Chin...

MUMBAI -- Nine persons were reported dead and eight persons were critically injured after a fire broke out at a private hospital in India's Central state of Madhya Pradesh on Monday afternoon. Around 150 persons were believed to be inside the three-s...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Foreign Ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will try and thrash out their differences, ranging from the conflict in Myanmar, to the disputed South China Sea, to admitting East Timor to th...

Hong Kong, August 1 (ANI): Social media has been carrying videos of People's Liberation Army (PLA) equipment such as rocket launchers moving across China by train, with many suggesting this is part of PLA exercises designed to display Beijing's displ...

HANOI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,377 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, down by 101 from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,781,009. The country reported no new deaths from ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's garment, footwear and travel goods industry has seen a 40-percent rise in exports in the first half of this year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise. The Southeast Asian n...

HANOI, 1st August, 2022 (WAM) -- Revenue generated from tourism hit 11.9 trillion VND (US$509.85 million) in the first seven months of this ye...

New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Third Edition of Vietnam-India Bilateral Army Exercise "Ex VINBAX 2022" is scheduled to be conducted at Chandimandir from August 1 to 20, 2022. The exercise is a sequel to previously conducted bilateral exercise ...

Manila - Former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos, a U.S.-trained ex-general who saw action in the Korean and Vietnam wars and played a key role in a 1986 pro-democracy uprising that ousted a dictator, has died. He was 94.It was not immediately...

PHNOM PENH, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Taekwondo practitioner Phal Sovannath on Sunday won a gold medal at the 2022 World Police and Fire Games in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. On Saturday, fellow Cambodian athletes Sam Yudeth and Va Mithona also ga...

HANOI, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,478 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down 192 from Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,779,632. The country reported no new deaths from ...

by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- For many years, commuters, merchants and tourists had to spend endless hours to travel by land from the Croatian mainland to the southern part of the eastern European country. A bridge recent...

TAIYUAN, July 31 (Xinhua) -- North China's Shanxi Province launched its first international freight train that runs via the China-Laos Railway on Saturday, according to local railway authorities. The freight train, loaded with cargo containers includ...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Saturday congratulated two Cambodian taekwondo athletes on winning gold medals at the 2022 World Police and Fire Games in the Netherlands. In a post on his official Fac...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH)'s secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine has called on the public to continue to exercise caution as the Southeast Asian nation has seen a spike in new COVID-19 cases. Forty-se...

HANOI, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,670 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 135 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly-reported infections brought the total tally to 10,778,154. The country reported no new deaths fr...

Washington [US], July 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States has no plans for a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their visit to Cambodia for meetings with ASEAN, State Department spok...

NANJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- A freight train left the city of Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province on Friday for Vietnam's Hanoi, marking the launch of a new freight train route between China and Vietnam. The freight train, loading 72 TEUs of glas...

PHNOM PENH, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's banking industry enjoyed robust growth in both loans and deposits in the first half of 2022, according to the latest report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Saturday. Outstanding loans rose by 23.4 ...

Washington [US], July 30 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Cambodia, the Philippines, and other South African countries in the coming week, the State Department said on Friday. The Secretary will be on travel from August 2nd thro...

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): Sandeep Arya, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as India's next ambassador to Vietnam. Arya, a 1994 batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is expected to take up the assignme...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Daily trading value on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) has skyrocketed in the first half of 2022, which truly reflects growing confidence among investors in the local bourse, CSX's Chief Executive Officer Hong S...

HANOI, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 1,805 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up by 106 from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health. The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 10,776,484. The country reported a new death from t...

HANOI, 29th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of US$764 million in the first seven months of 2022, the General Statistics Of...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Two Cambodian youths joined the International Tiger Youth Summit and pledged their participation in tiger and wildlife conservation in Cambodia's natural forest habitats, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Cambodia said in ...

New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): The Centre on Friday appointed Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Pranay Kumar Verma as the next High Commissioner of India to the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Verma, a 1994-batch IFS officer, is currently serv...

PHNOM PENH, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The poverty rate for Cambodia has dropped to 17.8 percent in 2020, from nearly 40 percent in 2009, a senior official said here on Friday. "During the last decade, the poverty rate declined by 1.6 percentage points per ...

The woman is being accused of human trafficking and faces three years in prison A Russian court has sentenced a surrogate mother to three years in prison for allegedly eng...

HANOI, 26th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is on the right track in accelerating its decisive economic reform, but an upgrade is needed to meet t...

BUENOS AIRES, 19th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnamese Ambassador to Argentina Duong Quoc Thanh has assumed the position of ASEAN Committee in Buen...

RAS AL KHAIMAH, 18th July, 2022 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, today receiv...

HANOI, 15th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam needs to invest approximately US$368 billion from now until 2040 to build a climate resilient and low-...

HANOI, 14th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam continuously increased in the first half of this year, especially i...

BERLIN, 13th July, 2022 (WAM) -- A working delegation of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam led by Minister Ho Duc Phoc is paying a working vi...

HANOI, 12th July, 2022 (WAM) -- UNESCO representative in Vietnam Christian Manhart has highlighted Vietnam's leading role in protecting intang...

HANOI, 11th July, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has set a target that the export value of agricultural, forestry and fishery products to the EU market...

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

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...

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 ...