The quarterfinals pitted China against Japan on four fronts, underlining the two countries as the runaway leaders in women's table tennis.

BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that China is ready to work with Germany to open a new chapter in their all-round strategic partnership, to steer China-EU ...

JAKARTA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has shut down three companies suspected of dumping industrial waste into rivers, a minister said on Friday. All the firms were sealed and face ...

KHARTOUM, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) announced on Friday that it has taken control of the strategic city of Al-Dibaibat in South Kordofan State, after battles with the ...

BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) -- China's Minister of National Defense Dong Jun on Friday met with Songwit Noonpackdee, chief of defense forces of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, in Beijing.

SOFIA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has asked the Constitutional Court to annul a decision by Parliament Speaker Nataliya Kiselova blocking debate on a proposed referendum over ...

Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR)'s Composite consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.23 percent year-on-year in April 2025, the SAR's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated on Friday.

SYDNEY, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A four-year trial using camels to control the spread of prickly acacia, one of Australia's most damaging invasive weeds, has delivered promising results in outback ...

JAKARTA, May 23 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has blocked 225 illegal commodity futures trading (PBK) websites between January and May 2025, according to the Commodity Futures Trading ...

DAR ES SALAAM, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango has called for global solidarity in the fight against hunger and poverty, stressing that these challenges transcend national ...

The World Bank, in collaboration with the Africa CDC, the WHO, and other partners, including the United Nations Children's Fund and the International Organization for Migration, convened the meeting ...