More than 100 heads of state and government will gather here later this month for the UN Sustainable Development Summit to adopt the sustainable development agenda that lasts through 2030, the world body announced Thursday.
Juvenile prisoners will account for a large portion of those that will qualify for China's amnesty deal, as they stand a better chance of re-integrating into regular life, said the Supreme People's Court at a press conference on Monday.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Department for International Development (DFID) of Britain will co-finance the 327 million U.S dollars cost of the 59 kilometer road in Pakistan's northwest that will allow Pakistan to act as a transit artery for goods moving between Arabian seaports in the south and China in the north, officials said Tuesday.
Following a recent move by China's top sports body to give up its authority over the Chinese Football Association, a local sports authority in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said it will mirror that action and cut its own ties to the local football association.
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.
Experts say that China's economy will continue to grow at rates above global averages in the near future, despite market fears sparked this week by the yuan's dip and economic policy adjustments.
Foreign national guards are looking forward to China's V-Day parade to be held on Sep. 3 in Beijing, which is the country's first to invite foreign armies to participate in a military parade.
China's prisoner amnesty is a sound combination of humanitarian practice and implementation of the rule of law.
Water pollution has gripped the attention of China's lawmakers as they questioned cabinet members in Beijing on Saturday.
China's top legislature has adopted a prisoner amnesty deal which will see thousands of war veterans as well as very old, young or infirm prisoners granted official pardons, in a move marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3.
The Myanmar Union Election Commission announced Thursday allowing political parties to use the state-operated Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) for campaigning purpose.
Lien Chan, former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's ruling party, will attend celebration events in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the victory of the war of China's resistance against Japan.
Rio de Janeiro's iconic Rodrigo de Freitas lake will stage an open air festival to celebrate the one-year countdown to the Paralympic Games, organizers said on Thursday.
More than 25,000 Kenyans have been employed for the ongoing construction of a Chinese-funded high-speed railway line linking Kenya's port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi, according to the Chinese ambassador to Kenya.
An amendment submitted to the legislature Monday proposes that criminals convicted on serious corruption charges who have received a two-year suspended death sentence will face life imprisonment after the two years.
China on Tuesday released details about the upcoming military parade, lifting the lid on the previously-hushed list of invited world leaders and guests.
Five state-owned property developers in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin announced on Tuesday they have formed an alliance to purchase apartments hit by the deadly warehouse blast on August 12 from willing residents.
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