The Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Monday rejected a UN body's resolution condemning its human rights violations amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
China reported more human cases of H7N9 on Saturday after researchers in Shanghai announced preliminary success in developing a vaccine.
A 59-year-old man having close contact with live poultry died on Monday morning of the H7N9 flu virus, the first of its kind in central China's Hunan province, local authority said.
One new human H7N9 case has been confirmed in east China's Jiangsu Province, the provincial health department said on Friday.
A group of scientists from the University of Technology under Vietnam National University (VNU) have successfully completed a Vietnamese human genome, said the university on Friday.
The United Nations family on Wednesday called upon people and governments worldwide to reject xenophobia and embrace migration as a key enabler for equitable, inclusive and sustainable social and economic development.
Myanmar's National Human Rights Commission claimed on Wednesday that it was able to intensify its activities to promote and protect human rights by conducting certain outreach activities for the first time, citing the commission's visits to a number of sensitive areas in the country in 2013.
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed on Wednesday a UN General Assembly committee's draft resolution about the violation of human rights in Iran, Press TV reported.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday told Commonwealth representatives that his country wants to ensure sustainable peace.
Vietnam is speeding up recruitment of skilled professionals for the nuclear power sector as it prepares to start construction of the country's first nuclear power plant early next year, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) on Wednesday.
Donor organs must be distributed automatically through a national system, according to a new rule to take effect on Sept. 1.
According to Guangdong's health department on Saturday, sample of a 51-year-old woman tested positive for the H7N9 virus at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
China said Thursday that it maintains its assessment on the public health risks of H7N9 avian flu, despite a recent research paper indicating possible human-to-human transmission.
Global warming will probably trigger more human conflict and violence worldwide, according to a study published Thursday in the U.S. journal Science.
Moscow expected the U.S. to guarantee the rights of Russian citizens during operations against terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Chinese scientists have successfully grown tooth-like structures from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.
Russia believes a newly released U.S. report on human trafficking is politicized and hampers the work of law enforcement agencies in other countries, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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