Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Wednesday expressed concerns over the rise of the Islamic State of Dai'sh, saying the "terror outfit is more dangerous and brutal."
Myanmar's second largest city of Mandalay in the north received more than 400,000 foreign tourists in 2014, revealed the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism on Tuesday, predicting a rise to more than 500,000 in 2015.
The South Korean government made a final decision Wednesday to salvage the Sewol ferry from the waters off Jindo Island in the country's southwest coast, with field works slated to kick off as early as in September.
Along with the bourses of the other Asian emerging economies, Philippine stocks rose to new heights on Tuesday as investors' confidence on the region's economy remains bullish.
Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba Group of China, visited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and the two discussed in depth the significance of the spirit of entrepreneurship for growth in both India and China, as well as the whole world.
Chinese technology firms and equipment makers are gaining more and more traction overseas, propelled by the country's drive to realize a shift from low-end manufacturing onto construction into innovation hub for high-end technology.
Norway's intelligence service said Monday it must be prepared for possible terrorist attacks as more people have traveled from the Nordic country to fight in Syria and Iraq than it knows, local news media VG reported.
Over a million Brazilians across the country took to the streets Sunday to protest against President Dilma Rousseff.
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Regional delegates to China's annual parliamentary session are pushing to have their jurisdictions included into the country's next batch of free trade zones after three new zones were approved in December.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a new loan program worth of 17.5 billion U.S. dollars for Ukraine, in a bid to help the eastern European country stabilize its economy, announced IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Berlin on Wednesday.
The Legislation Law, as about 3,000 national legislators are mulling its revision, is not only for the legislature's concern.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Monday Zimbabwe's economic outlook remains difficult with growth likely to weaken further in 2015.
The Nigerian government said Thursday that intelligence reports by the public so far had boosted military prowess to effectively deal with the Boko Haram insurgents.
All countries experience tension between the need to develop resources for the good of all and the responsibility to preserve nature, and this is a "difficult balance", Britain's Prince William said while speaking in China on Wednesday.
All countries experience tension between the need to develop resources for the good of all and the responsibility to preserve nature, and this is a "difficult balance", Britain's Prince William said while speaking in China on Wednesday.
The head of the UN refugee agency said Thursday that the Syrian crisis has become "the worst humanitarian crisis of our times," threatening regional and global peace and security and "risking an explosion that could engulf the entire Middle East."
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