NEW DELHI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 133 people drowned and many others went missing in the Indian eastern states of Bihar and Jharkhand during the Hindu festival of Chhath Puja, local media ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 72 percent of Brunei's total land area is covered by forests, of which 21 percent are wetlands, a senior official said on Wednesday.

GYEONGJU, South Korea, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Wednesday called for efforts to advance multilateral cooperation within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ...

BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- China will develop a broader range of high-grade tourism products and improve the quality of tourism services to boost the country's tourism sector, according to ...

From the manufacturing hubs of East Asia to the emerging digital economies of Southeast Asia, regional integration has created unprecedented prosperity. The success story was built on openness: open ...

JERUSALEM, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Israel barred representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees held under a law classifying them as "unlawful ...

SOFIA, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Bulgarian National Assembly elected a new speaker on Wednesday, a day after the ruling coalition decided to rotate the head of the institution every 10 months.

COLOMBO, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Three Sri Lankan army soldiers were injured in a hand grenade explosion during a training exercise at the Army Training School in Maduru Oya, in Sri Lanka's north central ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) celebrated the official launch of RB SkyConnect on Wednesday, the airlines' new inflight connectivity service offering passengers ...

On Oct. 25, a high-level meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of Taiwan's restoration to China was held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, which was joined by representatives of Taiwan, ...

XI'AN, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- Yang Fasen, formerly a senior official of northwest China's Qinghai Province, was on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison for accepting bribes. His sentence was handed down ...

BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's foreign exchange regulator on Wednesday issued a notice introducing a package of new measures to further facilitate cross-border trade receipts and payments and ...