BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China has made headway in advancing the systematic governance over ship pollution on the Yangtze River with a campaign on the issue completed, the Supreme People's ...

VIENTIANE, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Lao and Thai authorities are carrying out trial runs of train service in preparation for the start of a cross-border service between Nong Khai railway station in Thailand ...

GENEVA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced Thursday the 3x3 World Tour season grand finale will be held in Hong Kong, China on November 23-24. This is the ...

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The popularity of China's new energy products in the global market is the result of long-term efforts by Chinese companies rather than government subsidies, He Yadong, ...

WARSAW, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Poland's Olympic gold medalist Iga Baumgart-Witan announced that the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will be her final performance on the Olympic stage. At Tokyo 2020, ...

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the China-Russia Years of Culture and a special concert celebrating the ...

TOKYO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed higher on Thursday, following Wall Street rallies after the U.S. consumer price index for April showed signs of cooling inflation which fueled hopes for ...

FUZHOU, May 16 (Xinhua) -- In a coastal county in east China's Fujian Province, fishermen are fully immersed in harvesting kelp, while trucks loaded with fresh seaweed bustle back and forth.

ATHENS, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A search and rescue operation was launched off the Greek island of Crete on Thursday for three people missing after their migrant boat sank, local authorities said.

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly met the press in Beijing on Thursday.

According to official figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday, the unemployment rate rose from 3.9 percent in March to 4.1 percent in April -- the equal-highest rate ...

MANILA, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Philippine troops killed two suspected rebels during a clash in the southern Philippines early on Thursday morning, the military said.