Shanghai recorded over 6.7 million inbound tourist trips in 2024, an 84 percent increase from the previous year, partly ...

SHENYANG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visited a food market in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, ...

LA PAZ, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen people have been killed and over 50,000 families across eight of Bolivia's nine departments have been affected by the rainy season that began in November, said an ...

SHENYANG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said on Thursday that the steel industry is an important basic industry of the country ...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- China is anticipating an average of 1.85 million inbound and outbound passenger trips each day during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, the National Immigration ...

TOKYO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Friday raised its policy interest rate to 0.5 percent from 0.25 percent, in line with market expectations and marking another step to unwind its ...

MANILA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' total external trade in goods fell by 1.9 percent in December 2024 to 15.45 billion U.S. dollars from 15.75 billion dollars in December 2023, the ...

DHAKA, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Bangladeshi government and the World Bank have signed an agreement as additional financing for enhancing the power transmission network in the eastern region project ...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 3 pips to 7.1705 against the U.S. dollar Friday, according to the China Foreign ...

HONG KONG, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index once rose 330.27 points, or 1.68 percent, reaching 20,030.83 points in the morning session on Friday. Enditem ...

The population of about 2,500 grey-headed flying foxes -- an endemic species listed as vulnerable to extinction by the federal government -- live in Canberra's Commonwealth Park on the shore of Lake ...

SINGAPORE, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Friday a slight easing of its monetary policy, marking the first such move since 2020 and the first adjustment in ...