China's top anti-graft body has warned officials to avoid exorbitant gifts including moon cake gift boxes and asked media to investigate and report on any breach of regulations against corruption and extravagance ahead of Mid-Autumn Festival, which this year falls on Sept 27.
As more than 120,000 people have surrounded Japan's national Diet building and protested at 300 other locations nationwide demanding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resignation and retraction of the controversial security bills, maybe it is time for the country's ruling bloc to carefully listen to the public.
Mass protests across Japan this weekend have delivered a clear and direct message to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that his plans to normalize Japan's military by way of unconstitutional legislation rammed through parliament are thoroughly and vehemently rejected by the public here, including growing numbers of youngsters, with political experts stating that the current trajectory of the prime minister and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, could lead to its eventual downfall.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday warned that legal actions would be taken against anyone who continues to accuse the government of using a fake map to demarcate the country's border line.
Eight firms are being sued for dumping untreated waste in northwest China's Tengger Desert as part of a high-profile public interest litigation filed by a non-profit organization.
South Korea's Minister of Health and Welfare Moon Hyung-pyo was replaced Tuesday by a veteran doctor after the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the president office said.
Japan's upper house of parliament on Monday began discussions on a package of controversial security bills that, if enacted, will allow for the nation's Self-Defense Forces to have an expanded role abroad, despite an ongoing public backlash that has seen hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protests.
The public outcry and subsequent plummet in support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his administration following the steamrolling of unconstitutional war bills through the lower house last week led to revelations that Abe decided to force the bills through with his party's majority vote as he knew the public would never accept them, no matter how many hours were spent debating them.
Chilean soccer star Arturo Vidal, who crashed his Ferrari under the effects of alcohol and insulted police authorities on June 16, agreed to donate sports equipment to compensate his infractions, local media reported Wednesday.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting for its summer plenary session in Strasbourg, passed a resolution on Tuesday calling on the U.S. to "allow Mr Edward Snowden to return without fear of criminal prosecution under conditions that would not allow him to raise the public interest defence."
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong offered a public apology Tuesday for the massive outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) at Samsung Medical Center, affiliated with the country's largest conglomerate Samsung Group.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is forging ahead with his plans to pass contentious security legislation through parliament albeit at a delayed date and in spite of the fact that the vast majority of the public oppose the implications the new bills will have on the nation's future security and the fact the bills themselves have been deemed unconstitutional by a plethora of legal experts on constitutional matters.
China and ASEAN countries aim to build a timely and accurate information channel for infectious diseases, said a Chinese official at an international workshop that closed on Wednesday in south China.
China's New Year blockbuster "Gone With The Bullets" was given an award of shame for excessive smoking as part of the country's latest anti-tobacco campaign.
Hong Kong should install more water dispensers with high quality water in prominent locations to help reduce bottled water consumption and plastic waste, a local think tank Civic Exchange said here on Tuesday.
Nearly 500 public accounts on Tencent's WeChat app have been punished after they were found plagiarizing since February, the app developers said in a statement Tuesday.
Irish lender Permanent TSB would launch a public share offering on Tuesday to raise 400 million euros (or 423 million U.S. dollars), local media reported on Monday.
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