TEHRAN, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei has warned that the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could break the ongoing ceasefire between Iran and the United ...

CANBERRA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Australia's unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3 percent in March, according to official data released on Thursday, matching economists' expectations.

BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The surveyed urban unemployment rate in China averaged 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (Q1), maintaining the same level as that of the same period last year, ...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Israel-Lebanon talks will take place on Thursday. "Trying to get a little breathing room between Israel and Lebanon.

TOKYO, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The number of visitors to Japan from the Chinese mainland plunged 55.9 percent year-on-year in March to 291,600, marking a continued downward trend that is weighing on ...

BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 2.4 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026, official ...

SEOUL, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Foreign investors sold South Korean stocks for a third successive month amid the Middle East tensions, financial watchdog data showed Thursday.

TOKYO, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index climbed over 2 percent on Thursday morning to a fresh intraday high. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 1,415.35 points, or 2.43 p ...

The platform, known as the Super AI Hospital in Boao, was launched in March in the Lecheng pilot zone, a State ...

BEIJING, April 16 (Xinhua) -- China's fixed-asset investment went up 1.7 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2026, reversing the 3.8-percent decline recorded for the whole of last year, ...

LOS ANGELES, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The United States' Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to produce the largest high-resolution 3D map of the universe ever ...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) held an opening ceremony for the National Security Education Day at the ...