TOKYO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The average price of newly harvested rice in Japan has surged 48 percent in September from a year earlier amid higher production costs as well as stronger market demand ...

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's Olympic silver medalist Li Jiaman won her first World Cup Final title in her debut at the season-ending tournament in Tlaxcala de Xicohtencatl, Mexico, on ...

SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's foreign currency deposit rose for the fourth successive month due to solid demand for the U.S. dollar deposit, central bank data showed Monday.

Foreign entrepreneurs are increasingly bullish on the Chinese market, buoyed by recent economic policies aimed at encouraging ...

In Xi's words, the BRICS cooperation transcends the old formula of political and military alliances, the old mindset of drawing lines on the basis of ideology as well as the obsolete notion of ...

Raphael Veiga netted a hat-trick as defending champions Palmeiras secured a 5-3 away win over Juventude in Brazil's Serie A championship on Sunday. Teenager Estevao and Colombia international ...

JAKARTA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, as President Xi Jinping's special representative, attended the inauguration of Indonesia's new President Prabowo Subianto here ...

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday cut its market-based benchmark lending rates, with the one-year loan prime rate (LPR) down to 3.1 percent from the previous reading of 3.35 percent.

BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 25 major currencies announced on Monday by the China Foreign Exchange ...

China will intensify its support for the listing of high-quality innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the ...

NEW DELHI, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen killed seven employees of a private infrastructure company (six non-locals and a local doctor) and wounded five others in restive Indian-controlled ...

This was followed by a meeting of BRICS Ministers for Women's Affairs in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sept. 20 to identify "areas of interaction" in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with ...