Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, will not seek the second term, presidential spokesman, senator Farhatullah Babar, said Monday.
Authorities in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region will soon start to restore a group of valuable frescos that have been exposed to more than 500 years of deterioration.
Pakistan admitted on Thursday that the Afghan reconciliation process face many challenges but all sides will have to show patience to achieve the goal of elusive peace.
The unconstitutionality of elections in Japan have once again come to the fore as a consortium of lawyers plans to nullify the results of the July 21 Upper House election, local media reported Wednesday.
Brazil said Tuesday it had no intention to grant political asylum to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden who disclosed a vast program of U.S. world electronic surveillance.
The Chinese government's ongoing efforts to increase the velocity of money will help channel capital into the real economy and spur growth, experts attending the 5th China International Assets Management Conference have said.
A joint pilot training program allowing high school graduates to study in both military academies and universities has been approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC) and President Xi Jinping.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that confrontations related to South China Sea issues will bear no fruit, calling on all involved parties to solve disputes through negotiation.
The Thai government on Tuesday agreed to promptly review last week's decision to cut the rice price by 100 U.S. dollars a ton in response to protesting farmers.
The TAL Group from China's Hong Kong plans to invest 200 million U.S. dollars to produce fabrics, garments and textiles in Vietnam.
Singapore has set up an inter-ministerial committee to coordinate the nation's effort to deal with the impact of the haze resulting from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday.
China will continue a prudent monetary policy while ensuring credit growth for the real economy, agricultural sector and small enterprises, according to a statement issued after a State Council meeting Wednesday.
China's supreme court and procuratorate jointly issued a new judicial explanation Tuesday that imposes harsher punishments on polluters.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday hailed the NATO's transfer of security responsibility in Afghanistan as a "critical milestone" achieved by the determination of Afghan people and sacrifices by NATO and Afghan troops.
The world is bracing for a population explosion but few have any solutions. The global population, currently 7.2 billion, barreling past 8.1 billion by 2025, to 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, and then almost 11 billion by 2100.
The Chinese mainland on Sunday introduced a slew of preferential policies to boost cross-Strait exchanges with a focus on improving the lives of the Taiwanese.
The summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations is taking place at the Lough Erne resort with the launch of formal negotiations on a free trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States.
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