Seoul slams Abe's shrine visit

National Assembly resolution cites negative impact on ties with Japan

Company Special: Company seeks to craft silver into culture market

When people think of Shanxi they usually think of coal, but while that might have been true in the past, in recent years some companies have been exploring other business opportunities.

Bombings might be related, police say

Putin orders law enforcement to increase security in Russia

Fear runs high among refugees in crowded South Sudan camp

The women and girls leave the main United Nations refugee camp here during the day. The men do not. To exit is to risk death, they say.

Saudis vow $3b to boost Lebanese army

Saudi Arabia has pledged $3 billion to Lebanon to help strengthen the country's armed forces and buy weapons from France, Lebanon's president said on Sunday.

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Business continues despite shelling

Editor's Note: As people around the world prepared to celebrate the start of a new year, Xinhua News Agency correspondents Liu Yang, Wang Lei and Chang Tiantong talked to people affected by the conflicts in Syria, Egypt and Thailand, and asked them about their hopes for 2014.

Thai tourism official hopes unrest ends

Protests by hundreds of thousands of angry Thais, waving banners and shouting slogans as they marched through Bangkok over the past month, have cast a shadow over "the land of smiles".

Success elusive amid unrest

When I first saw him, 23-year-old Ahmed Hassan was looking attentively at a bunch of flowers in his father's flower shop, located in Maadi, a southern district of Cairo.

Boy wishes to return to school

Abdel Fathy, a 13-year-old boy, sells fruit from a horse-drawn cart in a noisy market in Giza, the area of Greater Cairo on the west bank of the River Nile.

Abe stepping up military agenda

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pressing ahead with his long-time goal of removing constitutional restrictions on a military buildup, despite worldwide criticism over his visit last week to the Yasukuni Shrine for the war dead, analysts said.

Japan PM 'must correct mistake'

China is taking a tougher stance toward Japan, observers said, after a state councilor condemned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a shrine honoring its war dead, including war criminals.