Winter influenza has caused 126 deaths here since Jan. 2, 2015, according to a press release by the Center for Health Protection (CHP) of the Hong Kong Department of Health on Thursday.
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) opened its first branch in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Wednesday to save citizens time and money for traveling to Beijing.
The Japanese government designated 382 cases as top secrets subject to protection under the new secrecy law as of the end of December, local media reported Friday.
Hundreds of millions of migrant workers in China are expected to get their wages more easily under a regulation aimed at more effectively punishing employers who refuse to pay them.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned of missing Ebola response targets in some areas of West Africa amid two new confirmed cases in Mali.
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) of China on Thursday officially launched a website for parties to track the progress of their court cases in an effort to boost judicial transparency.
A new dengue vaccine tested in Brazil has proven to be effective in alleviating the disease, the state news agency Agencia Brasil announced Monday.
As intense media coverage on the US Ebola cases continues, China is getting a case of the jitters over the deadly virus as online rumors spread unnecessary fear.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reach 5,000 to 10,000 cases per week by the first week of December.
China has reported 4.6 times more cases of thyroid cancer over the past decade, with women worst hit.
South China's Guangdong Province reported 1,279 new cases of Dengue on Saturday, the local health authorities said Sunday.
Venezuelan Health Minister Nancy Perez on Wednesday confirmed 398 cases of chikungunya virus and 45,745 cases of dengue virus in the country, state media reported.
An average of 92 women were raped every day in India, four of them in the capital last year, said an official report Thursday.
China will set up special courts for intellectual property rights (IPR) cases in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the top legislature has decided.
China's customs authorities had investigated 542 cases of drug smuggling in one year since June last year, the General Administration of Customs said on Tuesday.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Wednesday that more than 10,000 officials were investigated for corruption from January to March.
China will severely punish people who insult medical workers or set up shrines to late patients in hospitals, according to a guideline issued on Thursday.