SANYA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam beat China 2-1 in a shootout to win the women's beach handball gold medal on Thursday in the final event of the 6th Asian Beach Games. Vietnam took the first set 20 ...

The diffusion index for smaller firms' current business conditions declined 1.9 points from the previous month to minus 21.9, the weakest reading since September 2022, when it registered minus 23.3, ...

PHNOM PENH, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has served as an indispensable platform for Cambodia to advance its national development and amplify its voice on re ...

SANYA, China, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Saudi Arabia is keen to deepen sports cooperation with China and expand its role in the global sporting landscape, said Abdulaziz Baeshen, CEO and secretary general ...

LANZHOU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- A new study by Chinese scientists has uncovered that dust storms are the "hidden drivers" of extreme rainfall and precipitation shifts on a global scale, overturning the ...

KABUL, April 30 (Xinhua) -- At least five workers were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Afghanistan's remote northeastern Badakhshan province on early Thursday, local authorities reported.

PARIS, April 30 (Xinhua) -- France's gross domestic product (GDP) stalled in the first quarter of 2026, recording zero growth from the previous quarter, according to preliminary data released on Thurs ...

In April 2026, Yuzhong District hosted the Chongqing International Coffee Carnival, drawing participation from Starbucks and ...

BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated 91.5 billion yuan (about 13.33 billion U.S. dollars) in new ultra-long special treasury bonds to fund large-scale equipment upgrades in 2026, the coun ...

A Chinese court has ruled in favor of a human employee in a labor dispute caused by AI replacement, which experts said may ...

BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks closed mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.11 percent to 4,112.16 points.

A special China-Russia cultural exchange event — the Dialogue on the Integration of Oriental Acrobatics and Western Art — was ...