BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will hold its 16th session in Beijing from June 24 to 27.

STOCKHOLM, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Sweden's Armand Duplantis set his 12th pole vault world record on home soil, clearing 6.28 meters to win the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Sunday.

TEHRAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian lawmakers on Monday approved Seyed Ali Madanizadeh as the country's new minister of economic affairs and finance in a vote of confidence, the semi-official Tasnim ...

SEOUL, June 16 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's finance ministry said Monday that it will extend fuel tax cuts for two more months and consumption tax reductions for six more months.

HANOI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese officials who fail to fulfill their assigned duties in one year will be subject to staff streamlining under a new government decree, Vietnam News Agency reported ...

Besides providing salt-tolerant seeds, Chinese researchers have been promoting solar-powered solutions to support ecological restoration around the Aral Sea. In Muynak, Wang and his team helped ...

BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen has climbed to a career-high world No. 4 in the latest WTA rankings. The 22-year-old's rise was fueled by a strong showing at the Queen's ...

LOS ANGELES, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A man believed to be the shooter who killed a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounded another was arrested on Sunday. "We got him," Minnesota Governor Tim Walz confirmed ...

In May, prices of second-hand homes in first-tier cities declined by 2.7 percent year on year, a reduction of 0.5 percentage points from the previous month, according to the NBS. Notably, Beijing, ...

CANBERRA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Almost half of Australian children are not meeting developmental milestones by the time they start school, according to a government report.

CALGARY, Canada, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in downtown Calgary on Sunday as the Group of Seven (G7) leaders arrived in the city on their way to the two-day summit ...

BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) -- In a sweeping nationwide campaign against telecom and online fraud, Chinese police cracked 294,000 cases in 2024, apprehending a large number of suspects, including more ...