VIENTIANE, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Lao government launched a project to protect biodiversity and reduce poverty, engaging farmers from three districts of southern Laos' Khammuan province to help ...

SHANGHAI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's financial hub, Shanghai, had evacuated 112,000 people as of Friday morning due to Typhoon Pulasan, which brought record-breaking rainfall to parts of the city.

MANILA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday said it has approved a loan of 50 million U.S. dollars to improve water resources management, access to water, and community ...

TAIYUAN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China sent six new satellites into space on Friday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. The Jilin-1 Kuanfu 02B 01-06 satellites were ...

Karma Zuraiqi, lead author of the study from RMIT's School of Engineering, said the new greener method uses 20 percent less heat and 98 percent less pressure than the Haber-Bosch process and is as ...

MANILA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday said it has approved a policy-based loan of 500 million U.S. dollars to accelerate Indonesia's transition towards sustainable ...

A Japanese bullet train operator is investigating what caused two linked Shinkansen trains to uncouple while moving at high speed, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. A coupler on the ...

During China's mid-year "618" shopping festival, sales of smart pet drying boxes on Taobao, Alibaba's e-commerce platform, soared by 408 percent from last year, and sales of smart pet deodorizing ...

BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's National Assembly President Khuon Sudary will lead a delegation to visit China from Sept. 22 to 26, at the invitation of Zhao Leji, chairman of the National ...

YANGON, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Myanmar's floods has risen to 293, with 89 people still missing, as of Thursday morning, the state-run daily The Mirror reported on Friday. The floods ...

Tao Yonghong makes a Gan hair embroidery work at an exhibition center for intangible cultural heritage in Nanchang, east ...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's National Assembly on Friday approved a minor reshuffle of Prime Minister Hun Manet's cabinet, with two ministers swapping their portfolios.