As the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) draws near, an unprecedented 9 billion inter-regional trips are expected during this year's chunyun, or 40-day Spring Festival travel rush. And many like Wang ...

Meet Liu Wei, a dedicated courier who will be spending his eighth Spring Festival working in Xiamen. Liu's commitment brings ...

THE HAGUE, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The resounding clash of gongs and drums echoed through The Hague's ice hockey arena on Friday night as a vibrant lion dance captivated Dutch spectators during the "Happy ...

RAMALLAH/CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli authorities on Saturday released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of the second phase of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. Abdullah Zaghari, head of ...

BEIRUT, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's winter sports athletes expressed their great excitement about competing in the 2025 Asian Winter Games from February 7 to 14 in Harbin, China. "I have a feeling ...

HARARE, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A total of 24 people have died and six others have been injured in rainfall-related incidents in Zimbabwe since the start of the rainy season last October, the country's ...

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on Saturday that Israel will not allow Palestinian residents to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip ...

China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region deserves more global media appreciation, a Slovak news portal founder has said. Recalling his trip to China, Peter Vince, founder of the Slovak news portal ...

DAMASCUS, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- A wave of gunfire and rumors prompted a wide-scale security operation in Syria's coastal provinces, resulting in dozens of arrests, the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Four female Israeli soldier hostages held in Gaza were transferred to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) on Saturday and crossed ...

DHAKA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Severe weather events disrupted education for children around the world, including 33 million children in Bangladesh in 2024, according to an analysis released by the United ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves dropped by 1.888 billion U.S. dollars to 623.983 billion dollars during the week ended on Jan. 17, the Reserve Bank of India ...