A Chinese person drinks on average five cups of coffee a year. In a small town of south China's Hainan Province, this rises to 200 a year.
Hong Kong Chief Executive C Y Leung said on Tuesday that the white paper on "one country, two systems" practice in Hong Kong will help both local and international communities to better understand the "one country, two systems" policy.
China will attach greater importance to targeted control measures to keep economic growth in a proper range, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
The Chinese central government on Tuesday published a white paper detailing the "one country, two systems" practice in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), stressing the policy as a basic state policy despite new circumstances.
Thai army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan- ocha has asked demonstrators not to make a "three-finger" sign in public in protest of last month's coup, warning such gesture is against the martial rule.
The Thai authorities are seeking to have curfew lifted shortly for more tourist spots in the southern coastal region of the country.
Indonesian military commander General Moeldoko on Thursday ordered military officers and soldiers to be neutral during the country's presidential race next month.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko, pledging "full support" for his efforts to resolve the crisis facing the Eastern European nation.
Thailand's military junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha has declared himself as acting prime minister until someone can be found to serve the post full time.
A senior UN official said here Wednesday that 127 people have died in several weeks of violence in east and south Ukraine, which will make it more difficult for the country to hold presidential elections in the region on Sunday.
A Saudi Interior Ministry official has ruled out blocking access to the Internet as a means to deal with online content deemed hostile to the country, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Colombia's presidential election campaign closed Sunday, a week before voters are scheduled to cast their ballot on May 25. Incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos called on Colombians to vote for him if they want to see the country at peace, after his administration began a peace process with FARC guerrillas in 2012.
China's automotive industry will keep the forward momentum this year propped by strong demand and a new energy vehicle boom despite increasing downward pressure on the country's economic growth, analysts said.
The Chinese central government has announced a timetable to push forward the national unified real estate registration system as the founding work to better protect ownership and regulate the home market.
Ukrainian acting President Alexandr Turchynov met U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday to discuss ways out of the eastern European country's crisis, the parliament's press service said.
Former Pakistani military President Pervez Musharraf, currently facing a high treason trial, on Monday moved a court to seek lifting a travel ban on him as he wants medical treatment abroad, his lawyers said. Musharraf also wants to visit his ailing mother in the United Arab Emirates, they said.
Top United Nations officials have cautioned that Syria's newly announced presidential elections have a risk of undermining efforts to achieve a political solution to the country's three-year-old conflict, a UN spokesman said here on Monday.
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