The number of newborns in 2024 fell to 134,856, the lowest figure since records began. This represented a crude birth rate of 5.76 per 1,000 people, a drop of 715 births from 2023 and marking the ...

LONDON, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan has withdrawn from the Snooker Masters on medical grounds, the World Snooker Tour revealed on Friday.

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- A 28-year-old man from southeast Cambodia's Kampong Cham province died of H5N1 human avian influenza on Friday, becoming the first death in 2025, the Ministry of Health ...

China has prioritized eco-environmental conservation and green development, supplying more than 70 percent of the world's wind power equipment and 80 percent of global photovoltaic components, Wang ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Friday established a task force for the acceleration of downstreaming and national energy resilience to speed up the added value ...

KATHMANDU, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Inflation rate in Nepal grew to a 15-month high of 6.05 percent by mid-December due to rising food prices for the last few months, the central bank said on Friday. The ...

Both foreign exchange reserves and remittance inflow went up in Nepal in the first five months of the current 2024-25 fiscal year, the central bank announced on Friday. Remittances to Nepal stood at 4 ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Laos and Vietnam have officially launched a cross-currency transaction service, connecting their cross-border retail payment systems through QR codes.

DAMASCUS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Three women died and five children suffered severe fractures and bruises on Friday in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in the Syrian capital Damascus while attempting to ...

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated 30 million yuan (about 4.17 million U.S. dollars) to fix quake-damaged roads in the Xizang Autonomous Region, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday.

This means that Chinese people have achieved the target level of health literacy that was set in the outline of Healthy China 2030 ahead of schedule. The Healthy China 2030 blueprint stipulates that ...

SANAA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Israeli military and U.S.-British naval coalition on Friday jointly launched dozens of airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa, northern Amran province, and the port city of ...