SINGAPORE, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Singapore recorded 4.31 million visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2025, on par with the same period last year, with China remaining the top source of tourists, ...

ZHENGZHOU, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Li Jiping, a former vice president of China Development Bank, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes by a court in central China's Henan Province on ...

ROME, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, died Monday at the age of 88, said the Vatican in a statement. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, in ...

LONDON, April 21 (Xinhua) -- British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter jets intercepted two Russian aircraft near NATO airspace last week, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said Sunday.

GULBAHAR, Afghanistan, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Once a thriving hub for domestic textile production and a pillar of Afghanistan's industrial development, the Afghan Textile Gulbahar Factory now stands in ...

JAKARTA, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia recorded a trade surplus of 4.33 billion U.S. dollars in March, up by 1.23 billion dollars from the previous month, according to government data released on ...

KABUL, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan interim government's Ministry of Public Health launched a nationwide campaign on Monday to give polio vaccination doses to 11.6 million children under five, the ...

TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks fell on Monday as a stronger yen against the U.S. dollar weighed on export-oriented stocks like Toyota and Mazda. The benchmark Nikkei stock index, the ...

South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol on Monday attended the second hearing of his criminal trial over insurrection charges. Yoon entered a courtroom of the Seoul Central District Court around ...

Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican said in a statement. Born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, he had served as the head of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Janet Yang, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, recently discussed China's growing cultural impact and expressed optimism about cultural exchange between China and the United ...

Hosted by the China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA), the First China-GCC Forum on Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology brought together officials and nuclear experts from China, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, ...