WARSAW, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China suffered a straight-sets defeat against Iran in the FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League preliminary phase in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday.

ESSEN, Germany, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Danish taekwondo athlete Eva Eun-Kyung Sandersen, a nine-time world poomsae medalist and 11-time European champion, won the first gold medal of FISU World ...

SINGAPORE, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said the best framework for the global economy at present is "the world, temporarily minus one," referring to the United ...

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Sales revenue under trade-in programs in China has surpassed 2.9 trillion yuan (about 405.6 billion U.S. dollars) as of the end of June, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told ...

BUDAPEST, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Led by Olympic medalist Gabor Harspataki, Hungary has announced a 72-member team for the upcoming 2025 World Games in Chengdu, committing to deliver outstanding ...

CHONGQING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The first Belt and Road Conference for Overseas Chinese Cooperation and Development opened in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Thursday, aiming to harness the ...

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- China has imported consumer goods worth 7.4 trillion yuan (about 1.03 trillion U.S. dollars) between 2021 and 2024, the first four years of the 14th Five-Year Plan period ...

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Consumption has contributed around 60 percent on average annually to China's economic growth over the past four years, and the role of consumption as the economy's main ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei dismissed as "baseless and being part of the anti-Iran propaganda campaign" the Wednesday claim by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) that a military group, ...

TOKYO, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Japan's core consumer price index (CPI) in June rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance said in its monthly report, called Green Book, that the South Korean economy had been under downward pressure, such as slowing exports, due to the worsened external ...

The outbreak of the toxic algae species Karenia mikimotoi was first detected off the coast of the state of South Australia (SA) in March amid a marine heatwave. In the months since it was identified, ...