SEOUL, June 19 (Kyodo) - South Korea's top nuclear envoy urged Japan on Wednesday to participate in providing economic and energy aid to North Korea under an aid-for-denucelarization deal.

Hanoi, June 19 (VNA) - The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) on June 17 gave the go-ahead to two local commercial banks to issue bonds and long-term valuable papers in Vietnam dong this year.

Hanoi, June 19 (VNA) - The government has given the nod to the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines to sell 10-20 percent of its stock to foreign strategic partners.

Hanoi, June 19 (VNA) - A new edition of the diary of Dang Thuy Tram - a female Vietnamese doctor who worked on the front lines and died in southern battlefield during the Vietnam War - has been rel

Jakarta, June 19 (ANTARA) - State-owned electricity company PLN has scheduled alternate power cuts in Jakarta and Tangerang until next week due to disturbances in a number of power plants in the Ja

MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Gazprom is the optimal gas supplier for Moldova. This opinion was expressed by a Russian government source.

MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the
Russian soccer national, coaches and Russian fans on the squad's

BANGKOK, June 19 (TNA) – The continued selling of stocks by foreign investors on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is expected to proceed only for the short run, according to a leading fund ma

Vientiane, June 19 (KPL) - Supplements to a Memorandum of Understanding on a group of Vietnamese-invested hydro-power projects in Laos were signed in Laos ' capital Vientiane on June 16.

KAPUSTIN YAR PROVING GROUND, Astrakhan Region, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian military proving ground Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan Region will again start working for space explorations on Thur