SACRAMENTO, the United States, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Trump administration recently approved a controversial expansion of a coal mine in the state of Montana, bypassing standard environmental reviews ...

BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The 17th Straits Forum will be held in east China's Fujian Province in mid-June, a mainland spokesperson said on Monday.

SEOUL, June 9 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's jobless claims fell in four months due to weaker demand in health and welfare, public administration, and lodging and eatery industries, government data showed ...

The consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, edged down 0.1 percent year on year in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). On a monthly basis, the CPI dipped 0.2 ...

TOKYO, June 9 (Xinhua) -- An explosion occurred Monday at an ammunition storage area within the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, resulting in injuries, ...

SEOUL, June 9 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday held phone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, according to Lee's office.

The total trade volume of foreign enterprises in China reached 1.11 trillion yuan (over 154.47 billion U.S. dollars) last month, according to the General Administration of Customs.

The China-Africa trade volume increased 12.4 percent year on year in the January-May period to 963.21 billion yuan (about 134 billion U.S. dollars), accounting for 5.4 percent of the country's total ...

BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- China's total goods imports and exports in yuan-denominated terms rose to 17.94 trillion yuan (about 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first five months of 2025, up 2.5 ...

SYDNEY, June 9 (Xinhua) -- A man has died following a shooting southwest of Sydney in the early hours of Monday morning. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said that emergency services were ...

TOKYO, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Japan's current account surplus in April expanded 3.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.26 trillion yen (about 15.6 billion U.S. dollars), driven by a smaller trade deficit, ...

TOKYO, June 9 (Xinhua) -- An explosion in an area with munitions storehouse was reported at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in the Japanese southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, public broadcaster NHK reported ...