The Japanese cabinet on Friday approved a bill intended to impose tougher penalties on civil servants, lawmakers and others who leak national secret and therefore threaten national security, according to local media.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will meet with his Thai counterpart Surapong Tovichakchaikul on Monday next week--two weeks before a World Court's verdict over the border row between the two countries.
Poland's Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz Wednesday ordered the temporary reintroduction of checks on Polish borders during an upcoming climate conference, according to Polish media report.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be able to convince the U.S. leadership on Pakistan's stance on drone attacks, the country's information minister said Tuesday.
China National Petroleum Corporation, the country's state-owned oil giant, has said that the China-Myanmar gas pipeline, expected to benefit over 100 million people in the two countries, had begun full operations.
Hong Kong Chief Executive C Y Leung said Tuesday in Beijing that the Hong Kong government will seek justice for the families of the victims and injured people in the Hong Kong hostage crisis in Manila, the Philippines, three years ago, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government website.
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate change, a leading New Zealand climate scientist warned Wednesday.
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics contractor, on Monday started building a new plant in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
China and Singapore are putting their heads together to build the world's first "ecocity" involving government-to-government cooperation in Tianjin, and hope it will be a model for sustainable development, local officials said here on Monday.
Beijing is wooing Internet-based financial services such as online peer-to-peer lending and crowd financing to move their activities to its technological hub, promising perks from lower rents to cash rewards.
Beijing Municipal Government will soon issue an emergency response to the lingering smog, with alternate driving days for even- and odd-numbered license plates, Xinhua has learned.
Beijing Municipal Government will soon issue an emergency response to the lingering smog, with alternate driving days for even- and odd-numbered license plates, Xinhua has learned.
Kenyan lawmakers plan to come up with laws that will guide on the sharing of revenue accrued from the exploitation of the natural resources in the East African country.
China will work with Myanmar to further improve military ties and jointly safeguard border stability, a senior Chinese military officer said on Tuesday.
Li Wei, who took a vacation to escape her big city life, did not expect her short stay in the small coastal city of Wanning on China's tropical island of Hainan Province, to be so "digital."
Due to the political brinkmanship and uncertainty caused by the lingering fiscal fight between Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. gold-plated sovereign credit rating might be downgraded by other credit rating agencies (CRAs), Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics, warned Tuesday.
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest and his wife Nicola will make an donation of 65 million AU dollars (61.5 million U.S. dollars) to alma mater, the University of Western Australia, making it the single largest donation in Australian history, local media reported on Monday.
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