Hanoi - Heavy rains and floods killed at least seven people and left one missing in central Vietnam, officials said Thursday. "According to the updated figures as of 9 am (0200 GMT) Thursday, seven pe...

Cambodia reaches cultural milestone Cambodia's first rock opera will premiere in Phnom Penh next month, a cultural milestone in the Southeast Asian country where performing arts were banned during th...

THE United States yesterday launched aid projects for disabled people in Vietnam with US$ 1 million ($1.49 million) in funding allocated by Congress last year for Agent Orange and dioxin relief.The th...

A mega-tsunami struck southeast Asia 700 years ago rivalling the deadly one in 2004, two teams of geologists said after finding sedimentary evidence in coastal marshes.

— Faced with mounting public criticism, Vietnam's Health Ministry suspended a widely ridiculed plan to ban short, thin and small-chested drivers.

SEVEN weeks before it hosts Asean's annual jamboree of regional leaders, Thailand has suddenly decided to switch the venue from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.Officially, the reason for the 700 km move to the ...

At least six people have been injured after a grenade was thrown at Thai anti-government protesters who have been camped outside the prime minister's office for the past two months. Two assailants on...

A small explosive device has been thrown at an anti-government protest camp in the Thai capital, Bangkok. Ten volunteer security guards were injured, two of them seriously, said Police Captain Pompet...

THE Thai government is considering spending up to US$14 million ($21.06 million) on technology to block websites it deems insulting to the country's monarchy, the communications minister said yesterda...

Bangkok Hospital is breaking down the barriers between the womb and the outside world, with the revolutionary new 4D ultrasound technology. The technology allows parents to see their children's faces ...

(AFP)--Ten volunteer security guards for an antigovernment group were injured Thursday when a small bomb was tossed into a protest camp near the regional U.N. headquarters, police said.

HANOI, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The state-owned credit institutions'unperformed debts are expected to expand to 30,000 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (1.81 billion U.S. dollars) till the end of 2008, loca...

The measure is aimed at helping Vietnamese crude exporters in the face of falling global crude oil prices, the news Web site VnExpress reported. Vietnam is expected to have exported 1.104 million met...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- An American man has been charged with soliciting sex from two Cambodian girls, officials said Wednesday. Michael James Dodd of Washington D.C., was arrested at his rented house...

BANGKOK, Thailand: An explosive device was hurled at a key anti-government protest site in Bangkok before dawn Thursday, leaving 10 people wounded. All of the wounded were guards for the anti-go...

Tuesday. Dealers said they expect the foreign-exchange rate to fall slightly towards the weekend following Fed's rate cut to 1%. "The dollar is falling globally while supply in the domestic market is...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will pay a two-day official visit to Vietnam from Nov. 4, reported by the local newspaper Thanh Nien on Thursday. The visit is at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Mi...

Explosive device hurled at a key anti-government protest site in Bangkok All of the wounded were guards for the anti-government protest movement Protesters have occupied grounds of prime minister's of...

BANGKOK, Thailand: An explosive device was hurled at a key anti-government protest site in Bangkok before dawn Thursday, leaving 10 people wounded. All of the wounded were guards for the anti-go...

Bangkok - A bomb thrown early Thursday among anti-government protestors gathered at Makkahawan Bridge in Bangkok wounded at least nine people, one of them seriously, radio reports said. The bomb was l...