TBILISI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mikheil Kavelashvili was sworn in as Georgia's sixth president in a ceremony held at the Parliament building on Sunday, Interpressnews reported. Among the people attending ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has convened a key year-end meeting in Pyongyang, as the country's top leader reassessed the state ...

SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Forty-two skiers from four countries and regions will compete in the upcoming FIS Snowboard Parallel Asian Cup at Galaxy Ski Resort on December 30 and 31 in Chongli, ...

YANGON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Two Myanmar nationals and a Malaysian national were arrested for drug trafficking in Yangon, along with a large haul of drugs and drug-making devices, the official daily ...

BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's capital city will continue to increase its green space, aiming to raise the forest coverage rate to 45 percent by 2025, the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's transport ministry said on Sunday that its investigation unit secured both black boxes -- the flight data and voice recorders -- from a passenger jet that ...

KHOST, Afghanistan, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- At least four people were killed late Saturday night in a gas cylinder blast in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, a local official confirmed Sunday.

By witnessing and feeling firsthand, people can dismantle ideological barriers. The 2,500-year-old Confucian proverb says, "It is such a delight to have friends coming from afar." China has welcomed ...

ZAGREB, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Voting for the Croatian presidential election began at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Sunday, with over 3.7 million eligible voters across the country set to vote for a new president ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia is open to negotiations to resolve the Ukraine conflict, but such talks must address its "root causes" and reflect realities on the ground, Russian Foreign Minister ...

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A key meeting of the ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has appointed Pak Thae Song as the country's new premier, the official Korean Central ...

Emergency services, including police, ambulance crews and a rescue helicopter, were deployed to reports of a recreational aircraft crash at an airfield on Palmers Island, over 500 km north of Sydney ...