An airstrike killed at least 50 people at a concert in Myanmar held by an ethnic minority group in conflict with the ruling military, opposition groups and media said on Monday, an attack condemned by the United Nations and Western embassies.The jet ...

JAKARTA -- Rescuers recovered 13 bodies and rescued 263 people as a fire broke out on a passenger ship in the waters off East Nusa Tenggara province in central Indonesia on Monday, rescuers said. Among the survivors, some suffered from injuries, said...

HANOI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 546 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, up by 388 from Sunday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought the total t...

HANOI, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's import and export activities will face many challenges in the last months of this year and into the next, according to the Import-Export Department under the country's Ministry of Industry and Trade. The difficult...

The country has more than 400 people with over $100 million, surpassing France and ItalyRussia ranks tenth on the list of countries with the largest number of centimillionaires, or people whose fortunes are worth $100 million and more, RBK news repor...

The country has more than 400 people with over $100 million, surpassing France and ItalyRussia ranks tenth on the list of countries with the largest number of centimillionaires, or people whose fortunes are worth $100 million and more, RBK news repor...

HANOI -- Vietnam recorded 158 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down by 317 from Saturday, according to its ministry of health. This is the lowest number recorded in the country in nearly one year, said the ministry, adding that all the new cases were lo...

Hong Kong, October 23 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping was elected as general secretary of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and secured an unprecedented third term, however, it may prove disastrous for world peace, ...

HANOI, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 158 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, down by 317 from Saturday, according to its ministry of health. This is the lowest number recorded in the country in nearly one year, said the ministry, adding that all the...

Phnom Penn - Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold a special meeting in Indonesia on Thursday to discuss the Myanmar peace process, Cambodia's foreign ministry said on Sunday.The talks at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secre...

BANGKOK - Rights groups say the long-awaited rules Thailand's government approved this month for screening foreigners seeking refuge from persecution in their home countries are likely to leave many worthy applicants in the lurch.The United Nations r...

© Provided by Xinhua MONDULKIRI, Cambodia, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Officials and conservationists in Cambodia on Saturday called for an end to wildlife consumption, saying that the wildlife consumption demand was a major driver for poaching, snarin

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Brunei is categorized as the second lowest disaster risk country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the World Risk Index 2022 report, a local newspaper said on Saturday. According to the ...

The defending champion U.S. Women's National Team will face Vietnam and the Netherlands in the group stage at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Group E will also include one of the intercontinental playoff winners -- Cameroon, Thailand or Portugal --...

HANOI, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 475 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 107 from Friday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the health ministry. The newly reported infections brought ...

© Provided by Xinhua MANILA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- "The pandemic is not yet over," a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Friday, saying the continued emergence of subvariants "poses a risk of resurgence and overwhelming h

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres agreed on Friday to continue to strengthen multilateralism with the United Nations playing a central role amid unpredictable developments in th...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (LCRC), a joint venture based in Lao capital Vientiane and responsible for the operation of the railway's Lao section, has conducted an exercise responding to emergency cases in the tunn...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government is scheduled to resume the annual That Luang Festival so as to boost economic recovery and preserve the country's cultural traditions, after it was canceled for the past two years due to the COVID-19 ...

CANBERRA -- Flooding in Australia's southeast will harm the country's projected economic growth, the treasurer has confirmed. Ahead of handing down his first federal budget on Tuesday, Jim Chalmers on Friday said modeling suggests floods in Tasmania,...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - To Ali, it seemed like a great way to make more money. The 23-year-old earned $350 per month as a cleaner in a factory at home in Malaysia. But in April, he was purportedly offered a job in Cambodia making four times as much ...

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 582 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, up 41 from Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the ministry. The newly reported infections brought the total tal...

SINGAPORE, 21st October, 2022 (WAM) -- Minister of Public Security of Vietnam, General To Lam attended the Singapore International Cyber Week (...

HANOI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has lifted caps on credit growth for some banks to provide more loans to the economy as firms need more capital to boost production at the end of the year, local media reported on Friday. It ...

MANILA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- "The pandemic is not yet over," a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned on Friday, saying the continued emergence of subvariants "poses a risk of resurgence and overwhelming health systems." Babatunde Olowokure, ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has seen no new deaths from COVID-19 since April, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said Friday. "This is a success that resulted from our joint efforts in the fight against COVID-19," he said in a...

Ho Chi Minh City [Vietnam], October 21 (ANI): The arrest of chairwoman of Vietnam-based Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, Troung My Lan, has again brought the Chinese connection with business tycoons in Vietnam into limelight, The Singapore Post reporte...

© Provided by Xinhua Residents in Lao capital tighten their belts by giving up buying trendy things, spending money wisely, growing vegetables and using domestic products to beat the spiraling inflation which hit a 22-year high in September.

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- In a report delivered on Sunday at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, expounded on the tasks of the CPC in the new era. "From this...

We all know Mitsubishi for its rather unimpressive stint in India. The Japanese company had launched enthusiastic products and was poorly received. A combination of factors led to very uninspiring sales for the company. In its defence, Mitsubishi had...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia and Timor-Leste on Thursday signed two deals to boost bilateral ties and cooperation, a Cambodian senior official said. Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and visiting Timor-Leste President Jose Ra...

TOKYO -- Japan logged a record trade deficit in the six months to September, owing to soaring prices for energy and raw material imports being further inflated by the yen's steep decline against the U.S. dollar, the government said in a report on Thu...

HANOI, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 541 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, down by 796 from Wednesday, according to its ministry of health. All the new cases were locally transmitted, said the health ministry. The newly reported infections broug...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- A centuries-old sandstone Asura head statue has been discovered in front of the south gate of the Angkor Thom temple in Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park, the APSARA National Authority (ANA) said in a news re...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Spiraling inflation in Laos is having a dramatic effect on people's lives, even though the government has promised to garner more revenues to swell its coffers while reining in spending and stabilizing currency exchange...

VIENTIANE, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Money exchange units in Laos that represent commercial banks are now prohibited from selling foreign currency, according to Lao central Bank. According to an updated information from the Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) websit...

HANOI, 10th October, 2022 (WAM) - The 28th Vietnam Medi-pharm Expo will take place from 1st-3rd December in Hanoi, giving a chance for business...

HANOI, 4th October, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam will invest in 10 energy technologies in the 2021-2030 period to ensure energy security for the count...

HANOI, 30th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam estimates a trade surplus of US$6.52 billion in the first nine months of this year, Vietnam News ...

HANOI, 28th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Typhoon Noru made landfall in Vietnam early on Wednesday, causing damage to thousands of homes and widesp...

HANOI, 27th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Economists have forecast Vietnam's inflation will be kept at around 3.3-3.8% this year, similar to the Na...

HANOI, 23rd September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is ranked 63rd out of 113 global economies in a global ranking of digital environment and support...

HANOI, 21st September, 2022 (WAM) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has maintained its favourable economic outlook for Vietnam as it forecas...

HCM City, Vietnam, 9th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Thousands of stroke patients hospitalised in HCM City's People's Hospital 115, Vietnam, over t...

BRUSSELS, 8th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam is among the 66 military medical delegations gathering in the Belgian capital city of Brussels ...

HANOI, 5th September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam recorded 1,390 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national caseload to 11,418,894, the Viet...

HANOI, 2nd September, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam has made significant efforts to implement the UNESCO Convention for the protection of the world cu...

ABU DHABI, 2nd September, 2022 (WAM) -- President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a congratulatory message to Preside...