The Ministry of Education urged transparency and more supervision in college students enrollment, upon the completion of China's annual national college entrance exam on Sunday.
Unidentified persons torched four vehicles and fired in the air in the Pakistani commercial hub of Karachi on Tuesday shortly after the police in London arrested a powerful Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain over money laundering charges.
The Chinese public are outraged at the slaughter of an innocent woman, beaten to death by six suspected cult members last week.
An Indian aid worker was abducted Monday by unknown gunmen in Afghanistan's western Herat province, said local media reports.
Insurgents brought down a Ukrainian military helicopter near the rebel-held eastern town of Slavyansk, killing 14 troops onboard, acting President Alexandr Turchynov said Thursday.
Chinese researchers said they have discovered a suspected dinosaur fossil in a hilly area in northern Hebei Province.
Thai former education minister Chaturon Chaisang was arrested by the military on Tuesday afternoon, local media reported.
The boss of a Chinese company hit by deadly riots earlier this month in Vietnam has said it has no timetable for resuming work in its steel project in the southeastern Asian country.
Vietnam's capital Hanoi People's Procuracy on Tuesday read the impeachment and proposed 30-year imprisonment to Nguyen Duc Kien, a banking tycoon in Vietnam.
The White House said on Tuesday that it has launched a probe into how the name of the Central Intelligence Agency's top officer in Afghanistan was inadvertently revealed during President Barack Obama's weekend trip to the Asian country.
The international police agency ( Interpol) issued a "red notice" against former Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad for the crime of embezzlement, said the South American country's authorities on Tuesday.
Confidence among South Korean consumers fell to the lowest in eight months as one of the country 's worst maritime disasters dampened willingness to consume, central bank data showed Tuesday.
Thai former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) Suthep Thaugsuban on Monday was indicted by the Criminal Court over charges of murder and attempted murders.
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.
Fire broke out near a bus terminal in Goyang, a city just north of South Korea's capital city of Seoul, leaving at least six people dead and 24 injured, YTN and Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.
Thai caretaker premier Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan's whereabouts are not yet known after the armed forces seized the power.
Natural History Museum will open an exhibition of mammoths, the largest creature on the earth on Friday.
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