China's rail system has ushered in the busiest time of the year with the annual Spring Festival travel rush season. It's the same with the China-Laos Railway.

The Philippine government has signed a commercial contract worth 2.8 billion U.S. dollars with Chinese contractors to build the "fastest and longest railway" in the country that connects southern Luzon provinces.

Bulgarian Sinologist Petko Todorov Hinov, 49, translator of ancient Chinese classics and contemporary literature works by important authors, including Nobel laureate Mo Yan, died of COVID-19 on Jan 3.

For decades, the Thai monarchs have been personally and heavily engaged in advancing different methods – given the varied circumstances – of securing this ‘lifeline’ for their people.

People in Malaysia start to hang lanterns and other decoration before Chinese Lunar New Years.

China and Vietnam pledged on Jan 13 to continue with joint efforts in containing the COVID-19 pandemic and improving the efficiency of border clearance to facilitate more trade and economic cooperation.

Tan Jianhua, who used to captain vessels plying the Mekong River, has had a gun pointed at his head by a pirate and seen a friend killed in such an incident.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Jan. 10 held a phone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on bilateral ties and the situation in Kazakhstan.

Soon after midnight on New Year's Day, a freight train departed from South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region for Vietnam, a member country of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

US military operations in Laos, despite ending nearly 50 years ago, have left behind a legacy of destruction that still endangers lives today.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on parties in Kazakhstan to refrain from violence and promote dialogue so as to address the volatile situation, said his spokesman on Jan. 6.

South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region handled 346 China-Vietnam freight train trips last year, up by over 108 percent from the previous year, according to the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd.

Pakistani young man Mohammad Nauman has a deep affection for the metro. It's where his career began and where he witnessed the friendship between the locals and the Chinese.

"The golden age of durian trade is coming," said Edwyn Chiang, secretary general of the Malaysia International Durian Industry Development Association, expecting the RCEP to spur exports of the thorny "king of fruits" by 50 percent by the year 2030.

The Thai-Chinese Rayong Industrial Zone, which is located at the east coast of Thailand, has attracted more than 170 enterprises.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is due to enter into force on Jan. 1, 2022, will promote cross-border e-commerce and narrow the development gap between developed and developing countries.

A China-aided medical building at the Cambodia-China Friendship Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, successfully passed the completion inspection on Dec. 28.

The death toll from Typhoon Rai in the Philippines has surged to 389, with 64 more missing, a government disaster agency said on Dec. 27.

A total of 114,183 Cambodian candidates are taking a national high school graduation exam on Dec. 27 after the situation of COVID-19 pandemic had been brought under control.

Vietnam reported 15,218 new COVID-19 cases on Dec. 26, including 15,182 locally transmitted and 36 imported, according to its Ministry of Health.

Myanmar's Ministry of Industry and China National Biotec Group, affiliated with China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), signed a supply agreement on Dec. 23 for semi-finished vaccine products.

High-level relations between China and Russia are developing according to the expectations of both countries, and bilateral cooperation has exceeded the pre-pandemic level, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Dec 23.

Two China-Laos friendship schools, built with assistance from China Southern Power Grid (CSG), are transforming education in northern Laos.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Dec. 21 that his country will take countermeasures if the West continues its "aggressive" policy, but remains ready for negotiations.