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Across China: International visitors explore four decades of greening in Xinjiang's Kekeya
AKSU, Xinjiang, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- After viewing photographs of the area's earlier landscape at the Kekeya Memorial Hall in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, American actor and television presenter Steven Weathers was impressed by the transformation of Kekeya, not only for its greenery, but also for what the trees produced.
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Roundup: High-tech innovation emerges as new draw for visitors to China at Las Vegas trade show
by Xinhua writer Gao Shan
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U.S. companies to top CIIE exhibition area for eighth straight year
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. companies will top the exhibition area at the ninth China International Import Expo (CIIE) for the eighth time, with their area up 1,500 square meters from last year, an official said on Friday.
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Roundup: U.S. retail sales up in September amid surging gas prices
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. retail sales rose 0.8 percent in September to 745 billion U.S. dollars, largely driven by higher gasoline prices that boosted consumer spending at gas stations, according to data released Thursday by the Commerce Department.
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China's R&D spending up 8.2 pct in 2025
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- China's research and development (R&D) expenditure rose 8.2 percent year on year to 3.93 trillion yuan (about 584.5 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday.
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Macao exhibition traces 3,000 years of Chinese glassmaking
MACAO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A fleeting flower bloom finds lasting form in glass at an exhibition in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), tracing more than 3,000 years of Chinese glassmaking.
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S. Korea's export volume keeps double-digit growth in September
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's export volume kept double-digit growth in September amid an explosive global demand for semiconductors and computer storage devices, central bank data showed Friday.
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S. Korea's import prices rebound in September on oil price surge
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Prices for imported goods to South Korea rebounded last month amid a surge in global oil prices that offset the impact of a stronger South Korean currency, central bank data showed Friday.
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Singapore's non-oil domestic exports jump 68.4 pct in September on AI demand
SINGAPORE, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) surged 68.4 percent year-on-year in September, extending a 46.1 percent increase in August, Enterprise Singapore said in a release on Friday.
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Economic Watch: Chinese firms bring homegrown expertise, innovation to fuel Dubai's growth
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A growing number of Chinese companies are expanding their business activities in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), translating their experience in China into more localized business practices that benefit the host community.
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China's STAR Composite Index opens higher Friday
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The STAR Composite Index, which reflects the performance of stocks on China's sci-tech innovation board, opened 1.9 percent higher at 1,616.98 points on Friday.
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ChiNext Index opens higher Friday
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, was up 1.75 percent to open at 2,831.89 points Friday.
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Chinese shares open higher Friday
BEIJING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese stocks opened higher on Friday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index up 0.44 percent to open at 3,723.8 points.
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Small-scale desalination offers water security solution for remote Australia
SYDNEY, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A small-scale desalination unit is helping secure water supplies for a remote Aboriginal boarding school in the state of Western Australia, demonstrating its potential to address rural water scarcity.
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Extreme warmth drives plant extinctions, diversity booms: study
MELBOURNE, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Extreme global warmth drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant diversity during two periods over the past 140 million years, offering new insights into how flowering plants became dominant on Earth, a new study has found.
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New Zealand electronic card spending down 0.5 pct in September
WELLINGTON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's total electronic card spending fell 0.5 percent in September from August, with declines in retail and non-retail spending, official data showed on Friday.
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New Zealand petrol, diesel prices rise in September
WELLINGTON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand petrol and diesel prices rose in September from a month earlier, while annual food price inflation accelerated, official data showed on Friday.
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Bangladesh ranks 84th in Global Hunger Index 2026
DHAKA, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh has ranked 84th in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2026, with a score of 19.2, placing the country in the "moderate" hunger category.
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India's Ramsar sites tally reaches 103: official
NEW DELHI, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- India's total number of Ramsar sites has reached 103, with the latest additions of Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh and Sauj Jheel in Mainpuri district, Uttar Pradesh, Bhupender Yadav, the country's minister for environment, forest and climate change, announced on Thursday.
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Kyrgyzstan's GDP grows 10.8 pct in first 9 months of 2026
BISHKEK, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 1 trillion 640.9 billion soms (about 18.8 billion U.S. dollars) in the first nine months of 2026, an increase of 10.8 percent compared with the same period in 2025, according to reports released Thursday by the country's National Statistical Committee.
