BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- People across China on Wednesday held various activities to celebrate the ninth Chinese farmers ...

China's judicial and law enforcement authorities have issued a set of guidelines on handling criminal cases involving fentanyl-related substances, stressing severe punishment for such crimes in ...

Israel's Central Elections Committee voted on Wednesday to bar an Arab party and two left-wing lawmakers from running in the Oct. 27 election. The committee voted to bar Ra'am, an Arab party led by ...

TOKYO, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Smoke was seen coming from a building in Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku area on Wednesday night, and several people reported feeling unwell after inhaling smoke, according to ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has raised Malaysia's economic growth forecast for 2026 to 4.9 percent from 4.6 percent previously, the bank said on Wednesday. The ...

JAKARTA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Bank Indonesia kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.75 percent on Wednesday to maintain stability while supporting economic growth, the bank's governor Destry ...

Domestic tourists rose 7.9 percent year-on-year to 29.6 million from 27.4 million in the second quarter of 2025, the Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement. The number of domestic ...

The death toll rose to 10 on Wednesday, with four others still missing, after heavy rain from a large typhoon battered the Kanto region in eastern Japan and triggered landslides and flooding on Monday ...

NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's 13-year-old swimmer Yu Zidi completed an individual event hat-trick at the 2026 ...

JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) on Wednesday raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 7.25 percent, citing heightened inflation risks amid renewed fuel ...

At the production park of Hubei Yihua Group Co., Ltd. in Yichang, Hubei Province, intelligent production lines are running at full speed. Bags of fertilizer are automatically filled, sealed and ...

"Being in China gave me an opportunity to kind of reinvent myself as a scholar of world literature." Since 2018, U.S. scholar Kevin Alexander Morrison has taught and researched British literature and ...