The monopoly of state-owned defense contractors is fading further into memory, as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has opened its tender process to private sector players.
China will allocate more government funds for HIV/ AIDS prevention, especially for targeted groups,Premier Li Keqiang said during a visit to HIV/AIDS sufferers in Beijing. He said government investment will continue to increase and will help the most vulnerable groups, particularly homosexuals, to prevent the disease from spreading.
China's revised Workplace Safety Law, which imposes harsher punishment on offenders, will take effect Monday.
The establishment of a deposit insurance system will speed up China's bank reform through raising banks' competitiveness and promoting a fair financial environment, analysts said.
Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will be transported to the Netherlands this coming week and stored and investigated at the Gilze Rijen Air Base, the Dutch Safety Board stated on Monday.
Canada is to launch a new electronic system, called Express Entry, next month which will shorten the processing time for qualified applicants immigrating to Canada to six months or less, Canada's top immigration official said here on Monday.
China is to adopt a deposit insurance scheme to better protect savers and free up interest rates.
A Singapore restaurant is thinking of launching autonomous flying robots to do some waiters' work in one of its outlets by the end of next year, local media reported on Thursday.
A photo exhibition showing Japanese imperialists' atrocities in the Asia-Pacific region during war times will be held in Hong Kong and Macao in mid-December, organizers said Thursday.
South Africa will mark the first anniversary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's death in a bid to keep his memory alive and promote social cohesion, an official said Thursday.
Leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation met in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to discuss ways to promote integration as the organization pushes towards one community by 2030.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Russia is not a threat to any other countries, vowing that Russia will stay out of any geopolitical conflict.
The Italian manufacturing industry is estimated to close 2014 with a slight worsening of sales and to restart growth in 2015, according to a joint study presented Tuesday by the Prometeia think tank and Intesa Sanpaolo bank.
As U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down, President Barack Obama is likely to choose a new defense chief who can play ball with the rest of the team, experts said.
Muslim countries voiced their main concern over the expansion of Islamic State (IS) militant group in the Middle East while gathering at a meeting in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Tuesday.
Sambo, the internationally famous elephant known for years as one of capital Phnom Penh's most famous attractions, will retire to northeastern Cambodia's Mondulkiri province this week, an owner and officials said Tuesday.
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University plans to send two more satellites into outer space by the fourth quarter of 2015, it said on Tuesday.
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