Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, and Myanmar's junta leader committed to further strengthening security and other ties between the two countries at a Moscow meeting on Monday.
A new UN report warns that global progress against child labor has stalled for the first time since the last two decades. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labor unless urgent mitigation measures are taken. VOA Khmer's Chetra Chap narrates the story in Khmer.
Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Tuesday said parliament could reconvene by September at the earliest, providing the average number of new daily coronavirus infections falls to under 2,000.
Thailand's prime minister apologised and took the blame on Tuesday for coronavirus vaccination delays, while thousands of private companies and public organisations raced to secure doses imported by a royal-backed academy.
Retail sales of meat substitutes in Asia-Pacific reached $16.3 billion in 2020 and are expected to exceed $20 billion by 2025.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman urged Cambodia’s leadership to "maintain an independent and balanced foreign policy, in the best interests of the Cambodian people."
The visit also takes place as China has become increasingly important economically for Cambodia, which has seen its ties with the United States and the European Union deteriorate in recent years.
Services at public hospitals collapsed after many doctors and nurses joined strikes in opposition to military rule
Japan’s western region home to 9 million people is suffering the brunt of the fourth wave of the pandemic.
Around 19,500 university staff have also been suspended.
Cambodia shut clothing factories and put some worker communities under strict lockdowns in mid-April as hundreds of new coronavirus cases were detected each day, with infections at more than 100 factories.
The people of Myanmar must not despair in the face of evil or allow themselves to be divided, Pope Francis says at special Mass for Myanmar community in Italy.
Authorities recorded 650 new cases and 4 deaths on Thursday.
The activists, all members of the conservation group Mother Nature, were jailed for between 18 and 20 months for incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.
CBP indicators included debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, and retention of identity documents.
NagaWorld resort told more than 15 percent of staff this month that they will be laid off in the next few weeks.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, through which about $3 trillion of ship-borne trade passes each year.
Asked if Washington was heading toward a military confrontation with Beijing, US top diplomat said ‘it's profoundly against the interests of both’ countries.
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