JAKARTA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Under bright sunlight on Sunday, streets across Indonesia were filled with people waving national flags or dressed in red and white, as the country celebrated its 80th ...

KATHMANDU, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 126 people lost their lives in disasters across Nepal in the past four months, a government agency said on Sunday. According to the National Disaster Risk ...

Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa laid the foundation stone for the 240-km railway project, which is set to become the first cross-border SGR in East Africa.

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The first and second volumes of a compilation of discourses by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on adhering to deepening re ...

In Malang, East Java, another independent bookstore, Griya Buku Pelangi (Rainbow Book House), grew out of Pelangi Sastra Malang (Malang Literary Rainbow), a community founded in 2010 by poets Ragil ...

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Water Resources on Sunday activated a Level-IV emergency response for flood control in the southern island province of Hainan, in anticipation of ...

NAIROBI, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya has recorded 3,000 days of safe operation as of Saturday, Africa Star Railway Operation Company ...

CHENGDU, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China swept both titles of breaking at The World Games 2025 at the Chengbei Gymnasium here on Sunday, as Guo Pu (B-Girl Royal) and Qi Xiangyu (B-Boy Lithe-ing) clinched ...

SYDNEY, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Two people suffered minor injuries after a light aircraft made an emergency landing on a golf course in northern Sydney on Sunday afternoon. The Piper PA-28 Cherokee made ...

2024, as an election year in the United States, was a year of special concern that featured aggravating political strife and ...

SANAA/JERUSALEM, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Israel struck a power plant south of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday morning, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

CHENGDU, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Mexico scored a last-second touchdown to edge the United States 26-21 in the women's flag football final at Chengdu World Games here on Sunday as host ...