Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, is pictured near China's Qinling Station in Antarctica on Dec. 27, ...

2025 will be a pivotal year for Europe, demanding resilience, foresight, and decisive action from its leaders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen underscored this sentiment in a ...

Gaze in wonder as the sunset paints the sky over the Yekaxia ski resort in Altay, Xinjiang. Warm, vibrant shades of pink and ...

JAKARTA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has worked out a plan to reactivate idle wells across the country to decrease oil shipment from overseas, amid high price volatility, a minister ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's acting president Choi Sang-mok announced a week-long mourning period on Sunday over a passenger jet that crashed while landing at a southwest airport in the ...

DHAKA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Bangladeshi government's secretariat, a key administrative hub of the country in capital Dhaka, reopened on Sunday after a temporary closure caused by a devastating fire at ...

TOKYO, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Japan's average temperature in 2024 is likely to hit a record high for the second consecutive year, local media reported. The average temperature through November was 1.64 ...

MANILA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that 13 Filipino surrogates convicted by a Cambodian court on Dec. 2, 2024 for violating Cambodia's law on the ...

LHASA, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Lhasa, the capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, has completed 177,200 mu (about 11,813 hectares) of afforestation in the mountains to the north and south ...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday sent a message of condolences to South Korean Acting President Choi Sang-mok over the heavy casualties in the crash of a Jeju Air ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A total of 177 people were killed and two others went missing from a passenger airplane that crashed Sunday while landing at an airport in the southwest of South Korea, ...

Passengers are pictured at a railway station as more people return to their hometown for the upcoming New Year, in Tokyo, ...