JERUSALEM, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister's Office said Friday that Israel has received the list of three Israeli civilian hostages Hamas will release on Saturday. The list includes ...

BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- As China's Shenzhou-19 mission reaches its halfway, the three astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station, orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth, have shared their ...

MANILA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines registered 694,821 deaths in 2023, a 2.2 percent increase from 679,766 deaths registered in 2022, the Philippine Statistics Agency (PSA) said Friday. "This ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Lao central bank, the Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL), is strengthening foreign exchange management to boost the value of the Lao kip and ensure currency stability, Lao ...

ULAN BATOR, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A total of 137 forest and steppe fires were reported across Mongolia in 2024, destroying over 1,505,600 hectares of forest and grassland, local media reported on Friday ...

Data from this year's online shopping festival reveals a growing willingness among Chinese consumers to spend on products that are "tastier," "healthier" and "fresher," according to Zhang Peng, ...

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 ...