BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Thursday slammed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's so-called "free and open Indo-Pacific" vision. "Ostensibly, it ...

CAPE TOWN, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen people were killed after a bus overturned on the N1 highway near Touwsrivier, known in English as Touws River, in South Africa's Western Cape province early Thurs ...

KABUL, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghan authorities have launched two infrastructure projects in the western provinces of Herat and Farah aimed at improving urban transport and strengthening flood protection ...

SYDNEY, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Researchers in Australia have developed a soft robotic model of the human heart capable of mimicking disease, offering a new platform to study cardiac conditions and test me ...

MANILA, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Classes were suspended at all levels in both public and private schools in the city of Manila, capital of the Philippines, as an anti-corruption rally entered its third day ...

HONG KONG, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark Hang Seng Index gaining 0.76 percent to finish at 23,055.03 points. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index ro ...

SEOUL, July 2 (Xinhua) -- South Korean stocks suffered a "Black Thursday" today, with the benchmark KOSPI tumbling nearly 8 percent as a broad sell-off in semiconductor shares rattled investor ...

DHAKA, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh remittances hit an all-time high of over 35 billion U.S. dollars in the just-concluded fiscal year 2025-26, according to the Bangladesh Bank. Provisional data rele ...

SEOUL, July 2 (Xinhua) -- South Korea will open its foreign exchange market 24 hours a day starting July 6, planning to launch an offshore Korean won trading system in the first half of next year to t ...

BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Thursday called on Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities to remove restrictions on travel by mainland residents to ...

DC Studios has brought its unconventional take on "Supergirl" to Chinese theaters, part of the studio's ambitious new ...

BEIJING, July 2 (Xinhua) -- He Wei, vice chairman of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee, will attend the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Ju ...