BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's central bank plans to issue 60 billion yuan (about 8.3 billion U.S. dollars) worth of bills in Hong Kong on Jan. 15. The People's Bank of China said that the bills ...

Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu, nicknamed the "Iron Lady," announced her retirement from competitive swimming on Wednesday.

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 Beijing Book Fair opened on Thursday at the China International Exhibition Center, with over 400,000 titles on display, according to the organizers.

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- China welcomes foreign businesses to share in the country's development dividends, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said during a meeting with a U.S. company executive.

CANBERRA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Australian public and tourists will soon be able to visit the new pair of giant pandas - the only in the Southern Hemisphere - at the end of their quarantine period ...

Ju lives in Maxian Village in the city of Tianshui, in northwest China's Gansu Province. Located on the Loess Plateau, Tianshui is known for its huaniu apples, named after a local village. The special ...

YANGON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- About 3.4 million tourists visited the ancient city of Bagan in central Myanmar's Mandalay region in 2024, U Win Aung, deputy director of Bagan's Directorate of Hotels and ...

China's large-scale equipment upgrades and consumer goods trade-in programs helped reduce about 73 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2024, significantly advancing green transformation, said an ...

SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's opposition parties submitted a bill again Thursday to appoint a special counsel and investigate the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol's insurrection charge.

TOKYO, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Police in the southernmost Japan prefecture of Okinawa have referred a sexual assault case involving a U.S. Marine to prosecutors, local media reported, the latest in a ...

The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 will be held from March 25 to 28 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Four people died and dozens were injured when a tour bus crashed into several other vehicles in Batu City, East Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday evening.