JAKARTA, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian hurdler Emilia Nova, who scooped gold in the women's 100m hurdles at this year's Malaysia Open Grand Prix is aiming to repeat her victory in the 2019 SEA Games in the Phillippines later this year, her coach reve...

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said on Wednesday that center DeMarcus Cousins is making progress but still questionable for Game 1 of the Finals. He's pain-free, so it's really more a matter of rhythym, timing,...

PARIS, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Tennis legends Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer moved a step further towards their potential semifinal clash in men's singles, while fourth-seeded Kiki Bertens had to retire from women's singles second round citing illness her...

JAKARTA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Paralympic swimmer Jendi Pangabean has pledged to repeat his five-gold achievement at next year's ASEAN Para Games in the Philippines. The 2020 ASEAN Para Games is scheduled to be held in Manila from January 18...

PRAGUE, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Czech biathlete Gabriela Koukalova, 29, announced Tuesday on Facebook that she would end her sporting career. Today's move is not easy for me, but I decided to end my sporting career, she said. I am convinced that it is tim...

LONDON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The race to choose a new prime minister officially started Monday with ten hopefuls bidding to win the biggest job in British politics. The list of contenders emerged when a deadline closed with the successor to Theresa Ma...

SANAA, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi rebels said they launched multiple drone attacks on a Saudi military base in the Saudi Arabia's southwestern province of Asir in late night of Monday, the rebels TV al-Masirah reported. The attacks targeted K...

BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Central Asia from Wednesday to Sunday for state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and that of the Conference on I...

ISLAMABAD, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), arrested former President Asif Ali Zardari here on Monday in a money laundering case, local media reported. According to the reports, the former pres...

CAIRO, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A growing number of Chinese tourists are expected to visit Egypt in the coming years as the ties between the two countries are building up, said Shi Yuewen, Chinese cultural counselor to Egypt, in an exclusive interview. Ne...

BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Wang Yang Monday attended a symposium and consulted with representatives of non-Communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce on leading high-quality development thr...

BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- China has strengthened performance management to push forward the reform of public hospitals, according to the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Monday. In recent years, the country has gradually established a linkage mechanism b...

ATHENS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday requested Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos for the dissolution of the parliament and called for general elections. The outgoing prime minister had announced his intention t...

UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- An expert group appointed by the United Nations called on governments, the private sector and civil society, in its first report released Monday, to work together urgently to maximize the benefits and minimize the...

BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- China's border check agencies saw about 6.13 million inbound and outbound trips made during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, up 6.3 percent year on year, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said Monda...

HANGZHOU, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Top scorers at the upcoming UEFA Nations League Finals will receive a trophy with a touch of China as Alipay, a payment platform under China's e-commerce giant Alibaba and the official partner of the tournament, which was...