As a railway connecting Laos with China nears completion, experts say the showpiece infrastructure project will play a crucial role in improving the country's connectivity and aid its economic recovery after the pandemic.

Laos hopes to continuously strengthen the traditional Laos-China friendship based on their shared ideal of socialism, Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president, has said.

"In this context, speed is safety," Biden said in his remarks at the White House. "Conducting our drawdown differently would have certainly come with an increased risk of safety to our personnel."

Those who resigned included Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.

After staying in Shenzhen for nearly five years, Priyasha Sharma from Mumbai, India, said “It is just hard for me to leave the city now.” “Sometimes, I forgot that I am living in a foreign country."

Sri Lanka launched new "walk in" community COVID-19 vaccination centers throughout the country on Monday after another batch of the Sinopharm vaccines arrived from China.

A new batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines arrived in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Sunday, giving support to the Southeast Asian country's battle against its worst wave of outbreak of the pandemic so far.

Indonesia's Health Ministry on Thursday launched the mass COVID-19 vaccination for children of 12 to 17 years old as the national capital held its first mass inoculation for adolescents.

"I have known China since I was a child. Although the People's Republic of China and Thailand had not established diplomatic relations at that time, I could already hear the voice of new China on radio."

The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia confirmed the new arrival of the vaccine in a Facebook post, saying that the China-Cambodia joint COVID-19 fight has set a model for international cooperation.

The "Green Presidency Initiative" comprises of 1-megawatt (MW) Solar Photovoltaic (PV) System, having the capacity of generating 1.4 million units of green electricity annually, the president's office said in a statement.

Indonesia launched the COVID-19 vaccination program for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and children aged 12 to 18, Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said Tuesday.

The Bangladeshi government has extended the ongoing closure of educational institutions for another month in light of the current COVID-19 situation in the country which goes into nationwide lockdown from July 1.

Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel inaugurated the new system under which visas are produced digitally from the integrated information system of the Department of Immigration.

The Asian elephant is one of the most important species being protected along the border as it was hunted and killed as part of the illegal ivory trade in the past, posing a serious threat to its survival.

Bangladesh has suspended transport services linking capital Dhaka as the country strives to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sardar Shahadat Ali, a senior BR official, told journalists that the suspension would remain in force till June 30.

Organized by conservation groups Elephant Family and The Real Elephant Collective, the exhibition comes as a herd of wild Asian elephants roaming Southwest China's Yunnan province has captured global headlines.

Leaders of major Sri Lankan political parties and cabinet ministers have attended a virtual conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

A plane carrying a batch of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday arrived at the Noi Bai International Airport in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. A brief handover ceremony was held at the airport.

The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Design Award was officially launched in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality on June 8, as one of the side events for the sixth LMC foreign ministers’ meeting there and then.

Kikeo also said that the Lao side attaches great importance to the health of Chinese citizens and overseas Chinese in Laos, providing them, just like the Lao citizens, with free vaccination services.

Informed of the northbound tour by Yunnan elephants, the elephant fans from Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar shared their hometown stories on elephant protection.

Sri Lanka is working to vaccinate the entire population against COVID-19 by early 2022, allowing the workforce, e...

The China-ASEAN relations will open a new chapter of common prosperity if the two sides continue to boost cooperation in wide areas, said Yang Baoyun, a professor specializing in ASEAN studies.

During the meeting, the foreign ministers agreed to beef up pragmatic cooperation in such areas as fighting the pandemic, economic recovery, connectivity, disaster relief and prevention, as well as sustainable development.