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VIENTIANE, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Lao police in the northern Bokeo province detained two men and seized over 14 million amphetamine pills from their possession. The case was detected in Chiangthong village of Paktha district on Sunday, Lao News (...)

PHNOM PENH, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's trade with the other member countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) hit 11.19 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of 2024, up 13.9 percent from 9.82 billion dollars (...)

PHNOM PENH, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The China-Cambodia Think Tanks and Public Diplomacy Forum was held here on Wednesday, aimed at strengthening think tanks' cooperation in promoting friendship and building a community with a shared future. The (...)

HANOI, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has recorded 141 cases of malaria since early this year, an increase of 107.4 percent over the same period in 2023, Vietnam News reported Wednesday, citing the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology (...)

VIENTIANE, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government and a company from Thailand have collaboratively formed a joint venture company named Super Holding Company, to manage the clean energy business of over 7 gigawatts (GW). An agreement on joint (...)

As the tussle between Beijing and Manila over the vital trade corridor intensifies, New Delhi remains vigilant The Philippines deployed ships to a disputed area in the South China Sea over the weekend to stop what it called China's alarming (...)

HANOI, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The Vietnamese government always encourages Chinese businesses to expand investment in areas where China has strengths and Vietnam prioritizes such as innovation, green development, renewable energy and smart urban (...)

VIENTIANE, May 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 1.1 million foreign tourists visited Laos in the first three months of 2024, an increase of 36 percent compared to the figures for the same period in 2023. The largest number of visitors came from (...)

© Provided by Xinhua A worker packs durians at a processing factory in Chanthaburi, Thailand, April 26, 2024. (Xinhua/Wang Teng) CHANTHABURI, Thailand, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A worker stood atop a durian tree and cut the fruit with a knife,

HANOI, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Around 90 percent of condotel projects in Vietnam recorded no sales in the first quarter of 2024, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday, citing the property consultancy DKRA Group. The country's condotel market sales (...)

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong saw 3.4 million visitor arrivals in April, up around 20 percent year on year, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said Tuesday. In the first four months of this year, Hong Kong registered about 14.62 million tourist arrivals, (...)

In April 2016, Vietnam experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history when Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a subsidiary of the Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group, discharged toxic chemical waste off the coast of Ha Tinh province, (...)

HANOI, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Many Vietnamese banks have adjusted up savings interest rates by 0.2-0.3 percentage point per year since early this month to lure depositors, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday. The deposit interest rate hike is not (...)

VIENTIANE, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Laos' Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Australian government held a multi-stakeholder consultation on the draft decree on carbon credits in Laos. The (...)

New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): In a step towards bolstering maritime cooperation, the 16th Indian Navy-Australian Navy Staff Talks concluded successfully at Kochi on Tuesday. The talks, co-chaired by Rear Admiral Nirbhay Bapna, Assistant (...)

HANOI, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's seafood exports hit 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months of 2024, surging by 6 percent year on year, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday, citing the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and (...)

VIENTIANE, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Laos' Ministry of Industry and Commerce launched an e-commerce platform for Lao agricultural products, aiming to help local farmers access buyers and increase sales. The launching ceremony was co-chaired by Lao (...)

WARSAW, Poland: On Sunday, a shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets, mostly owned by Vietnamese vendors, was destroyed by fire. The fire department said more than 80 percent of the Marywilska 44 (...)

CHANTHABURI, Thailand, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A worker stood atop a durian tree and cut the fruit with a knife, while his colleague caught the durian firmly with a sack under the tree. With the durian harvest season starting in eastern Thailand, (...)

BANGKOK, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese technology giant Huawei hosted the Cloud Database Summit Thailand 2024 here on Monday, aiming to enable the public and private sectors to access next-generation database technologies and accelerate (...)

HANOI, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Shitong, assistant minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, led a CPC delegation on a visit to Vietnam from May 12 to 13, at the invitation of the Communist (...)

NANNING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The Cataract Blindness Eradication Project, funded by the Hong Kong-based charity GX Foundation, aims to complete its work of delivering free operations to cataract patients in Prey Veng Province of Cambodia by the (...)