Having suffered for more than 40 years from dirt, disorder and noise of coal trains, 78-year-old Gao Guangtian will finally enjoy an apartment with his own toilet for the first time in his life.
The approval of establishment of a pilot free trade zone in the eastern business hub of Shanghai indicates an important move for China's further reform and opening up, analysts say.
Donor organs are to be distributed through a nation-wide system after a new ruling by the government.
British oil giant BP is suing the U.S. government over its decision to bar the company from new federal contracts to supply fuel and other services, U.S. media have reported.
A wide variety of new food and beverage products will first appear at the 24th edition of the Hong Kong Food Expo, which will be staged in Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) on August 15-19, 2013.
The Egyptian constitution is expected to be amended within four months, after which parliamentary polls and then presidential election will be held, a presidential political adviser said Wednesday.
New HIV infections among stable couples pose great challenge to the fight against the epidemic in Africa, a senior UNAIDS official told Xinhua on Thursday.
A comprehensive system will be used to evaluate the quality of primary and secondary schools in China, an official with the Ministry of Education (MOE) said Tuesday.
China hosted an international conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace this week in a fresh attempt to relaunch the long-stalled talks between the two sides.
China's supreme court and procuratorate jointly issued a new judicial explanation Tuesday that imposes harsher punishments on polluters.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority officially decided Wednesday on the country's new safety requirements for nuclear reactors in an effort to prevent recurrences of disasters that happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011.
Approvals for the construction of new homes hit a five-year high last month, the government statistics agency announced Thursday, the same day the head of the country's central bank warned the housing market was overheating.
France has confirmed a second case of the infection of SARS-like coronavirus, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.
Survivors on Sunday mourned victims of the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan quake that struck southwest China's Sichuan Province five years ago, while they are struggling to embrace a new life.
Two U.S. astronauts conducted an emergency spacewalk Saturday to inspect and replace a device believed to be the source of an ammonia leak in the orbiting laboratory's power system, U.S. space agency NASA said.
China's top legislature adopted a new tourism law Thursday to address industry woes, protect tourists' interests and foster the industry's sustainable growth.
Researchers have discovered 14 new genetic variations that are associated with heart rate, according to a study published online Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics.
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