TOKYO, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The consumer price index (CPI) for Tokyo's 23 wards, excluding fresh food, rose 2.5 percent in January from a year earlier, marking the third consecutive month of ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Police in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province have rounded up 21 drug-addicted people recently and sent them to a rehabilitation center, provincial ...

SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Business sentiment in Singapore's manufacturing sector remains positive despite ongoing uncertainties in geopolitics and the global economy, according to a survey by the ...

Renowned U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs, a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, told Xinhua that the breakthrough made by DeepSeek shows the ...

Cambodia has seen a 55 percent increase in the number of Chinese tourists in 2024, said a Cambodian Ministry of Tourism's report released on Friday. A total of 848,952 Chinese visitors traveled to the ...

According to sources familiar with the matter, Honda has been pushing Nissan to accelerate its restructuring efforts. In November, Nissan announced plans to cut 9,000 jobs worldwide and reduce its ...

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 ...