A Beijing district court on Thursday gave an Internet rumormonger who defamed celebrities and the government a 3-year jail term.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday once again warned Russia against further destabilizing Ukraine, but said Moscow was not seeking "military confrontation."
A passenger ship carrying 475 people, mostly high school students, capsized in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday, leaving at least nine people dead and 287 others still missing, local media reported Thursday citing the country's central disaster and safety countermeasures headquarters.
A passenger ship with 459 people aboard, mostly high school students, sank in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday morning, leaving at least two people dead and 293 others missing, a senior government official said.
Liang Yaohui, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, was detained on Monday by local police for suspected crime of organizing prostitution, the Dongguan police announced via its official microblog.
A Russian fighter jet flew near a U.S. warship in the Black Sea for 12 times on Saturday amid rising tensions in eastern Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Malaysia was discussing with relevant authorities and experts on the custody of the black box of the missing MH370 flight, Malaysian acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said here Sunday.
The regional police chief here has agreed to demands to resign by pro-Russian protesters who occupied his headquarters Saturday, hours after a dozen gunmen seized two buildings in another eastern Ukraine town.
The slower growth of China's steel demand in 2014 and 2015 was keeping with the the country's economic development level as an industrial producer and reflected its change of economic model, said a senior official of an international industry association on Wednesday.
The South Korean military on Tuesday made a public disclosure of its indigenous drone after three drones suspected of coming from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) were discovered in frontline areas, local broadcaster YTN reported.
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier" debuted over the weekend and raced to garner 96.2 million U.S. dollars in ticket sales, leaving last weekend's box office winner "Noah" far behind.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera has issued an order to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to intercept any missile launched by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to local media Saturday.
An evacuation was conducted in an airport in northern Norway on Sunday morning after possible explosives were found in luggage.
One more drone suspected of coming from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was discovered on a mountain in South Korea's northeastern region, Seoul's Defense Ministry said Sunday.
A trooper of India's Territorial Army accused in a fake currency racket in Indian-controlled Kashmir was Thursday found hanging inside a police station, police said.
Indonesian military commander General Moeldoko reaffirmed the military's non-siding stance in the upcoming elections, saying that such a stance is essential to assure peace and fairness during conduction of the democracy process in the country.
Indonesia government agrees to pay the compensation fund amounting 21 billion rupiah (about 1.8 million U.S. dollars) asked by families of the slain employer to free Indonesian migrant worker Satinah from death penalty.
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