China's southern Guangdong Province has drafted a regulation to give street vendors the legal right to sell snacks in public places.
The New Zealand government on Wednesday strengthened oversight of its spy agencies with the appointment of the first-ever deputy Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security in the wake of revelations of illegal spying on New Zealanders.
Chen Jian, a rail transit development research fellow at the National University of Singapore, wants to return to China to make his fortune.
China's National Audit Office (NAO) on Tuesday reported management loopholes and malpractice concerning receptions, vehicles and overseas trips.
Police in south China's Guangdong Province have captured 3,033 suspects and busted 214 gangs in a crackdown on prostitution, they announced on Thursday.
China's listed companies are preparing for an unprecedented wave of resignations by independent directors following a Party directive on officials' other jobs outside their office.
A young woman who killed and dismembered a kitten and posted the bloody pictures on the Internet has angered many in China, a country that has witnessed a host of animal abuse cases in recent years.
While China is knitting an anti-terrorist security network with patrols by armed police, or even helicopters and vehicles loaded with riot guns, the nation needs still to prepare its people to fight the war on terror, thereby mobilizing its most powerful weapon.
Finland's stagnant economic growth may result in breach of economic rules set by the European Union (EU), warned the National Audit Office of Finland (VTV) in a report published Thursday.
At least 10 protestors and 29 policemen were injured as they clashed at a rally Saturday against a plan to build a waste incinerator in east China's Hangzhou city, capital of Zhejiang Province, authorities said.
Hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, trade union representatives and opposition party activists celebrated the 128th International Labor Day here Thursday morning amid tight security, defying a government ban on public gathering and marching.
China's Internet giant Sina.com on Sunday made another apology for its involvement in online pornography, saying that the website will obey the authorities' punishment.
The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on Thursday voted to adopt revisions to the Environmental Protection Law, which gives heavier punishment to environment-related wrongdoing.
The rule of law should be highlighted in advancing China's ongoing reform of its petition system, an important channel for the public to vent their grievances but one many regard as riddled with factors endangering social stability.
A bimonthly session of China's top legislature opened on Monday as lawmakers looked to amend laws on environmental protection and the government's budget.
Chinese authorities unveiled a package of healthcare measures on Wednesday, which consist of relaxing price controls covering non-public hospital services and encouraging the private sector to build health institutions.
Chinese provincial governments have tightened the rules on officials' overseas trips paid for by the public in line with a nationwide austerity and anti-corruption drive.
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