Pakistan has introduced a draft of proposed reforms to be discussed in parliament to bring the insurgency-hit tribal regions into the national mainstream.
Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) is actively testing people who live in the areas with high likelihood of local transmissions of Zika virus, as the number of people in the city state infected by Zika virus has grown up to 41 by Sunday.
Brazil's Minister of Civil Aviation, Mauricio Quintella, announced Wednesday that security will be boosted at airports for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, after terrorist attacks Tuesday in Turkey and in April in Brussels.
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland welcomed Thursday the headway made by humanitarian actors in reaching civilians trapped in besieged areas in Syria.
After watching a chunk of her Sydney beachside home fall into the sea, Mrs Zaza Silk returned to her precariously located property and defiantly declared she had no intention of moving.
Rainstorms will hit some southern Chinese regions over the next 24 hours, the national observatory said Saturday.
Two United Nations (UN) rapporteurs on Wednesday urged immediate protection for thousands of civilians caught up in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) offensives in the Aleppo region of northern Syria.
The United Nations is "deeply concerned" over the fate of an estimated 8,000 Syrians trapped by fighting following advances by the Islamic State (IS), a UN spokesman said here Tuesday.
Groups of residents from remote mountainous areas in Japan and Taiwan planned to work together on projects to lure tourists by promoting local ghost stories, those involved on the Japanese side said.
Over 6,000 people have fled areas in northern Syria as a result of the attacks by the Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitor group reported on Sunday.
In the town of Naraha, most of which lies within a 20-kilometer radius of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s radiation-leaking nuclear power plant, only six percent of the residents have returned home.
A car bomb went off in the predominantly Kurdish city of Al-Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Saturday, killing at least five people, pro-government Sama TV reported.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree on the registration of 18 forests covering a total of 2.67 million hectares as new protested areas, according to an Environment Ministry statement on Tuesday.
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Jan Egeland, said Thursday the upsurge in violence in the war-torn country was not only threatening the lives of countless civilians, but also jeopardizing future peace talks seeking to broker a political end to the five-year crisis.
Vietnamese Prime Minister (PM) Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday issued a directive on improving effectiveness of detecting and handling corruption cases, reported the Vietnamese Government's e-Portal (VGP).
Fifty percent of farmers responding to a survey said they have no plans to move to towns and settle down in urban areas, reported 21cn.com on Thursday.
All schools in Fiji were directed to close on Wednesday as Tropical Cyclone Zena was approaching and the Pacific island country's low-lying areas were flooded due to heavy rainfall.
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