Australia shot to the top of the Rio Olympic Games medal table by clinching their second gold of the night and setting a new world record in the women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay final on Saturday.
Remarried couples in Guangdong province who are pregnant with their second child will not be forced to have an abortion, even though they have not yet been granted permission for a second child.
Korea's economy grew 3.2 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period of 2015, slightly more than the 3.1 percent economists had predicted.
While downpours continue to threaten Chinese towns and cities, the Three Gorges Dam, widely seen as the solution to frequent flooding along the Yangtze River, is braced for potentially bigger surges this year.
Polaroid Swing, a new iOS app for creating animated photos, on Tuesday debuted at the App Store. The app has ties both to instant photography pioneer Polaroid and Twitter founder Biz Stone.
South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd is seeing signs of improvement in the display panel industry and expects its business performance to pick up in the second half of the year, the firm's chief executive said.
Benchmark interest rate cuts could be on the horizon as the mainland battles economic headwinds over the rest of the year, analysts say
British Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell on Monday urged Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon to stop talking about a second independence referendum and "get on with governing Scotland".
The second and final phase of polling for local elections concluded Monday evening in India's northeastern state of Assam, while as one person was killed in poll related violence, officials said.
A new policy on extended maternity leave in Liaoning Province came just at the right time for Ge Shengnan, who recently welcomed her second child into the world.
Myanmar is drafting its second five-year plan ( 2016-17 to 2020-2021) aiming to boost economic growth by encouraging investment in the public and private sectors to ensure higher local productivity through the process of industrialization , official media reported Thursday.
Despite the planned universal two-child policy, many young couples are reluctant to have a second child because of concerns including the possibility of a lower standard of living, a survey has found.
Japan's economy contracted in the third quarter owing to waning business investment and slumping inventories, entering a technical recession for the second time since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came into office in 2012 and unrolled two editions of his aggressive "Abenomics" blend of economic policy.
More than 53,000 couples in Beijing have applied for a second child since the city changed its birth control policy in early 2014.
South Korea's economic growth rose to the highest in about five years during the July-September period on the back of a recovery in private consumption from the negative effect of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak, central bank data showed Friday.
Indonesia's economy expanded at the slowest pace since 2009 in the second quarter as the government spending and exports remain subdued.
Canada's main stock market in Toronto stayed in the positive territory Thursday as gains driven by energy shares overpowered severe losses from the mining sector due to disappointing quarterly financial results.
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