TOKYO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks continued to rise on Friday as strong performance of U.S. tech stocks supported buying of semiconductor and AI-related shares in Japan. The benchmark Nikkei ...

Myanmar's National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) on Friday extended the state of emergency in the country for six more months, state-run Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) reported. At the NDSC ...

An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, which stresses the importance of family ties, family education and family values and traditions, ...

BISHKEK, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed a law imposing fines for insults and slander in the media, on the Internet and on social networks, the official Kabar news agency ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The 43rd Fajr Film Festival opened in the Iranian capital Tehran Thursday evening. The opening ceremony featured guests such as Iranian Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and 19 others injured in a collision between a minibus and a semi-trailer truck on an intercity highway in Iran's northern province of ...

NAIROBI, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A light aircraft crashed in Kenya on Thursday evening, killing a foreign couple on board, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has confirmed.

VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Russian security forces have dismantled a major drug laboratory in the Amur region, seizing over 600 kilograms of marijuana and other narcotics, local media reported ...

CANBERRA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Australian government has nominated the goldfields in the country's southeast for World Heritage status. Tanya Plibersek, minister for the Environment and Water, on ...

MEHTRLAM, Afghanistan, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- One commuter lost his life and three others sustained injuries due to a road accident that occurred in eastern Afghanistan's Laghman province on Thursday ...

New Zealand's Latin American community has expressed concerns after two members of parliament (MPs) made comments such as "send the Mexicans home." Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in the United States said on Thursday that two Chinese citizens were among the victims in the mid-air collision of a passenger plane and a ...