In an interview with a reporter from Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper, a board member of the People’s Magazine of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), journalist Khieu Navy, recognized the importance of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

Wild floods hit thousands more Australian homes

 Eurozone finance ministers are set to attend a meeting Monday under pressure to ramp up the firepower of a debt rescue fund even after markets backed off pressure on vulnerable nations.

The death toll in the storms that hit Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state this week has reached 444 as rescue workers continued to search for survivors in debris Thursday.

The sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) will be held from April 16-19, with the attendance of 1,000 delegates.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to redouble its efforts to support the people of Haiti on the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 and made 1.5 million others homeless.

The death toll from the Australian Queensland floods disaster has risen to 12 and more than 3500 people have been forced to take shelter in 57 evacuation centers across the state as floodwaters continue to rise, said Queensland Premier Anna Bligh on Wednesday.

Chinese President Hu Jintao met with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday afternoon in Beijing, urging the two militaries to deepen strategic trust.

China, U.S. resume high-level military exchanges, agree to avoid misunderstanding

A passenger plane with 105 passengers onboard crashed Sunday evening in northwest Iran and 72 passengers, including 12 crew members, were killed, the semi- official Fars news agency reported early Monday morning.

About 3,000 German farms have been given the green light to re-open as the government vowed Sunday to toughen up on a dioxin poisoning scare that sparked import bans on some of its farm products.

China's famed Shaolin Temple has set up more than 40 companies overseas amid hopes to spread Buddhist-inspired martial arts around the globe, state press reported Monday.

Icy weather and sleet have disrupted the lives of more than 3.83 million people in five provincial areas in southern China since Saturday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Wednesday.

U.S. special envoy for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) policy Stephen Bosworth met here Wednesday with Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's chief envoy to nuclear talks as he seeks to coordinate opinions of countries involved in stalled six-party talks over the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

As the three new pan-European financial watchdogs began to operate at the start of 2011, the European financial sector will usher in a new era of tough supervision.