HANOI, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 7,913 new cases of COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, including 7,911 locally transmitted and two imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 114,260 ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will likely discuss deterring Chinese aggression in Southeast Asia through his stated pursuit of "integrated deterrence" as he delivers an address Tuesday during a visit to Singapore.Austin is the first top officia...

BANGKOK - Thailand is considering a cap on the export of locally made COVID-19 vaccines as it scrambles to shore up domestic supplies amid its worst outbreak of the coronavirus since the pandemic began.Talk of restricting exports comes as some of Tha...

PHNOM PENH, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday confirmed 685 new COVID-19 infections including 262 imported cases, raising the national total caseload to 74,386, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Nineteen more fatalities had been...

VIENTIANE, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The Lao Ministry of Health on Tuesday reported 169 COVID-19 cases and one new death over the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 5,154 cases and six deaths. The National Taskforce Committee for COVID-19 Preven...

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil registered 578 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 550,502, the h...

NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 31,440,951 on Tuesday as 29,689 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. "India reports less than 30,000 daily cases after 132...

VIENTIANE, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Laos saw a record 932 million U.S. dollars in the value of imports and exports for June, according to the latest information from the Lao Trade Portal website. Laos recorded a trade deficit of 62 million U.S. dollars, a...

Hong Kong, July 27 (ANI): China is involved in various disputes with neighbors - including India, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam - but none approach the degree of danger faced by the democratic nation of Taiwan. China militarily threatens Taiwan ...

PHNOM PENH, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) on Tuesday confirmed 39 new cases of highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, bringing the kingdom's total number of Delta variant cases to 114. On July 22 and 25, laboratory tes...

PHNOM PENH, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A Cambodian scholar on Monday called on some Western countries not to politicize the COVID-19 origin-tracing issue, saying that any origin-tracing should be scientific, not political. "Virus origin-tracing is a scienti...

DHAKA -- Bangladesh witnessed a fresh high in both daily cases and new fatalities of COVID-19, registering 15,192 new cases and 247 related deaths in the past 24 hours as of 8:00 a.m. local time Monday, according to the Directorate General of Health ...

HANOI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 7,882 new COVID-19 infections on Monday, including 7,859 locally transmitted and 23 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 106,347 with 524 de...

Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday (local time) announced Veena Reddy, as the first Indian-American to become its Mission Director. "Today, Veena Reddy was sworn-in as our new Mission Director. S...

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory message to Nguyen Xuan Phuc on his re-election as Vietnam's president.In his message, Xi said that China and Vietnam are socialist neighbo...

ULAN BATOR -- Five people were killed after rain-triggered floods hit the western Mongolian province of Govi-Altai over the weekend, the country's National Emergency Management Agency reported on Monday. The disasters occurred in Khaliun and Chandman...

Beijing [China], July 26 (ANI): China on Monday announced that the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) will conduct an exercise in the disputed South China Sea. The training maneuver will be held in the waters between Guangdong's Shangchuan Island a...

HANOI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The 15th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam on Monday re-elected Pham Minh Chinh as the Vietnamese prime minister for the 2021-2026 tenure, according to voting results. Chinh, also a member of the Politburo of the 13th Commu...

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan recorded 3,752 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) sai...

Hong Kong, July 26 (ANI): Pandemic-induced fiscal responses and economic contractions have led to a sharp rise in public debt among rated sovereigns in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region but there is significant variation between individual sovereigns' p...

HANOI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 2,708 new COVID-19 cases between 7 p.m. local time Sunday and 6 a.m. local time Monday, taking the total tally in the country to 101,173, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The number included 9...

HANOI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The 15th National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam on Monday re-elected Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the state president for the 2021-2026 period, according to voting results. Phuc, also a member of the Politburo of the 13th Communist Party...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86.Moses worked to d...