HANOI, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 8,429 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including 8,377 locally transmitted and 52 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 170,190, with 2,071 deat...

VIENTIANE -- The Lao government has decided to extend the current nationwide lockdown to Aug. 18 as the COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office, Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, told a press conference in Lao capital Vi...

VIENTIANE, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government has decided to extend the current nationwide lockdown to Aug. 18 as the COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office, Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, told a press conference ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday confirmed 577 new COVID-19 infections including 224 imported cases, bringing the national total caseload to 79,051, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Twenty-nine more fatalities were ...

Vientiane [Laos], August 3 (ANI/Xinhua): The Lao government has decided to extend the current nationwide lockdown to August 18 as the COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office, Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, told a pres...

The United States said Monday that Myanmar's junta was playing for time with a two-year election timeframe as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to encourage ASEAN to appoint an envoy.Blinken is participating virtually in a week of talks...

HANOI, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 7,455 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 7,445 locally transmitted and 10 imported, according to the country's Ministry of Health. The new infections brought the total tally to 161,761 with 1,695 deaths...

SEOUL -- South Korea's defense ministry said Monday that no decision had been made yet over the joint annual military exercise with the United States this summer. Boo Seung-chan, defense ministry spokesman, told an online press briefing that nothing ...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three Cambodian dogs had been successfully trained to sniff out COVID-19, Director General of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) Heng Ratana said on Monday. The dogs had been trained with scent samples, known as Vo...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Monday confirmed a daily record of 560 COVID-19 infections including 169 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 78,474 so far, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. Twenty-two mor...

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) on Monday reported 109 new cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant, raising the kingdom's total number of the Delta variant cases to 223. On July 31 and Aug. 1, laboratory testing by the ...

More than 200 employees at two major hospitals in San Francisco, in the western U.S. state of California, have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a report Saturday in The New York Times.Most of the staff members at Zuckerberg San Franc...