Chinese taxation authorities pledged to step up supervision of multinational companies on Monday in a campaign to crack down on tax avoidance.
Researchers in Japan have recreated the basic structural unit of a kidney, which may lead to effective treatments for renal failure, the Asahi Shimbun reported Tuesday.
A think tank called Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) was founded here on Monday by Hong Kong's former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.
Most Thai rice farmers are used to producing rice for a living on a permanent basis and cannot turn to doing any occupation other than the rice-growing business, said a leading farmer on Monday.
The United States and Asia are two rare rays of sunshine in an otherwise cloudy global economic landscape, as most other economies are still seeing lackluster growth years after the worst downturn in decades.
Three scientists shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the committee announced Monday.
There was a period in the Han dynasty more than 2,000 years ago when Chinese authorities established Confucianism as a state doctrine while rejecting any other schools of thoughts.
AMC's "Breaking Bad" won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony here on Monday night.
The Chinese government announced on Thursday that poverty reduction and improvement of people's livelihood have been important objectives in its assistance to other developing nations in recent years.
Thai former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban and a number of other people under military detention have been released, local media reported Monday.
Australia and New Zealand have agreed to collaborate in the event of an outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease (FMA), which could devastate their livestock industries.
Egypt's Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat referred Wednesday deposed President Mohamed Morsi and other leading Muslim Brotherhood figures to the criminal court over charges of "espionage," state-run MENA news agency reported.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan held discussions in late August on establishing offices on each other's side, the mainland side said on Thursday.
UN inspectors tasked with investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria arrived at the war-torn country Sunday.
A Taliban weapons facilitator was captured Tuesday in northern Afghanistan.
Eating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries per week may help women reduce their risk of a heart attack by as much as one-third, researchers reported Monday in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
India's nodal medical body, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), has reportedly questioned the government's motive behind its decision to shift the 23-year-old Delhi gang-rape victim to a hospital in Singapore Thursday, where she died in the wee hours of Saturday.
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