WASHINGTON, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States will not allow shipping in the Strait of Hormuz "to be contested" by Iran, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. There is no clear ...

Candies are pictured at a duty-free grocery in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, March 12, 2026. Since the "zero-tariff" policy on imported goods for Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) residents took ...

A paper cut themed on the Spring Festival travel rush is seen at the Lijiang Railway Station in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 13, 2026. The 2026 Spring Festival travel rush comes ...

NEW YORK, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Major U.S. airports are seeing long lines at security checkpoints amid an ongoing partial government shutdown that has dragged on for nearly a month.

HEFEI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The first vehicle model jointly developed by Volkswagen Group and Chinese EV maker XPeng rolled off the production line in China on Friday, the German carmaker said, in the ...

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- China's gross ocean product reached nearly 11.02 trillion yuan (about 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up 5.5 percent year on year, according to data released by the ...

SHANGHAI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- British consumer health company Haleon announced on Friday that it will invest nearly 600 million yuan (about 86.95 million U.S. dollars) to build a new oral-care ...

WARSAW, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The Polish government on Friday adopted a resolution authorizing the ministers of defense and finance to sign an agreement related to the European Union's (EU) Security ...

BAKU, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The Global Governance Initiative (GGI) proposed by China has injected stability into a world rife with change and turbulence, international observers said Friday during a ...

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities have released a set of guidelines to accelerate the revitalization and development of the country's old revolutionary base areas.

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The government work report, delivered by Premier Li Qiang, was approved on March 12 at the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress. The report comprises ...

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The following is the full text of the government work report delivered at the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on ...