People select goods to prepare for the Spring Festival on Hang Ma street, Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, on Jan. 22, 2025.

ANKARA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Türkiye's central bank on Thursday cut its benchmark interest rate by 250 basis points to 45 percent, marking its second rate cut after keeping rates steady for months.

VIENTIANE, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in Laos hosted a reception here on Wednesday to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, bringing together guests from both Laos ...

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday held the fourth hearing of President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment trial, with the arrested president being present for the ...

RAMALLAH, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military operation in Burqin, a town west of Jenin city in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said ...

ANKARA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police detained 2,795 suspects in a nationwide anti-drug trafficking operation, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Thursday.

LILONGWE, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- At least 31 people have died and 31,413 households have been affected since the onset of Malawi's rainy season in early November, said the authorities.

JAKARTA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The export value of Indonesian furniture and handicraft products in the global market reached 2.22 billion U.S. dollars from January to November 2024, Indonesia's Trade ...

BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered chorus waves more than 160,000 km away from Earth -- a space phenomena previously believed to occur ...

BANGKOK, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The 9th ASEAN International Chorus Festival was held on Wednesday in Bangkok, Thailand, with 14 teams from ASEAN countries, Japan, and China participating in the ...

Five people were killed and five others injured in a traffic accident in southern Myanmar's Mon state on Wednesday, an official from a local rescue organization told Xinhua on Thursday. The accident ...

ANKARA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the devastating fire at Türkiye's Kartalkaya ski resort in northwestern Bolu province has risen to 78, and 11 people have been detained in connection ...