Sri Lanka has decided to disburse 33.8 million U.S. dollars under a pledge loan scheme through the banks for small and medium scale millers and cooperative societies to purchase paddy from farmers in ...

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Football Association (CFA) President Song Kai said Thursday that a Chinese football professional league union, an independent organization to manage the country's ...

YANGON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar exported over 2 million tons of rice and broken rice in the first nine months of the 2024-25 fiscal year, according to the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- At least three Naxals were killed Thursday in a gunfight with government forces in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials said.

LONDON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- West Ham United on Thursday named former Brighton and Chelsea boss Graham Potter as its new head coach, after sacking Julen Lopetegui on Wednesday. It is Potter's first job ...

The Lebanese parliament failed on Thursday to elect a new president for the country in its first session, the official National News Agency (NNA) reported. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri ...

MANILA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines' total external trade in goods fell 6.3 percent year-on-year in November 2024 to 16.15 billion U.S. dollars, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said ...

A devotee shows a miniature statue of the Black Nazarene during the annual feast of the Black Nazarene in Manila, the ...

HANOI, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 157,200 new enterprises were established in Vietnam in 2024 with a total registered capital of over 59 billion U.S. dollars, local media reported on Thursday, ...

MANILA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has priced a 5-billion-U.S. dollar three-year global benchmark bond, the proceeds of which will be part of the ADB's ordinary capital ...

YANGON, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A total of 88 people were killed and 360 injured in 203 traffic accidents on Myanmar's Yangon-Mandalay highway in 2024, according to the highway traffic police force on ...

LHASA, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- A total of 1,211 aftershocks had been detected as of 3 p.m. Thursday after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Dingri County in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on ...