The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Tuesday appointed Zhang Xiaoming as director of the central government's liaison office in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
Venezuelan President is back at the helm of the country and has begun giving instructions and leading his administration.
A Chinese official has played the role of South Korean rapper PSY in a "Gangnam Style" video to promote tourism.The video is designed to promote tourism particularly to South Korean visitors.Governments in China gradually departure from traditional communication strategies, experts said.
group of Chinese singers are unable to speak Russian and they have no musical background. However, they sing old classics in Russian. Not just idiomatically, but with complex polyphony in eight vocal parts. They follow the beat from Ekaterina Ilyakhina.
The number of U.S. people initially applying for unemployment aid last week surged due to the effects of superstorm Sandy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.
An ongoing investigation has found no evidence that a domestic brand liquor has been intentionally using plasticizer in its products, a Chinese local quality watchdog claimed Wednesday.
New Zealand's central North Island volcano of Tongariro erupted Wednesday at 1:25 p.m. local time, spewing a plume of ash and steam high into the air.GNS Science announced the volcanic alert level had been raised from level one.
Eight people, including two policemen, were wounded following an explosion near a regional police camp in southern Philippines on Wednesday, authorities said.
The former communications director to British Prime Minister David Cameron and the former chief executive of News International (NI) newspapers have been charged with plotting to bribe public officials, it was revealed Tuesday.