South Korea's prosecutors said Tuesday they would summon the suspected owner of the sunken ferry Sewol's operator, Chonghaejin Marine, later this week over allegations of corruption.
A ceremony was held here Tuesday to kick off a string of territory-wide activities in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family ( IYF).
Kidnappers made their first phone call to the family of the Chinese tourist they abducted along with a Filipino resort worker from a Semporna resort, Malaysian local newspaper New Straits Times quoted Eastern Sabah Security Command Director-General Mohammad Mentek as saying on Sunday.
The Immigration Department under the Hong Kong Government confirmed on Sunday that a Hong Kong resident was on the missing Malaysina fight bound for Beijing.
South Korea reoffered Friday to hold Red Cross talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) to discuss the topic of regularly holding family reunions, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
Six people were killed in a fire in Qingyuan City, south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, local authorities said on Monday.
The Queen in Britain delivered a televised Christmas speech Wednesday afternoon, reflecting on the past year when the 60 anniversary of her coronation was celebrated and her great-grandson was born.
Late former South African president Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has denied media reports that Mandela's family was at war after the death of the anti-apartheid icon.
Mandela's funeral is underway at his ancestral village of Qunu in Eastern Cape on Sunday.
The family of a 17-year-old student who committed suicide after he was physically punished a year ago by a former teacher filed a lawsuit on Wednesday for more than 165 million yen (about 1.60 million U.S. dollars) in damage against Osaka City, which runs the school he was attending, local media reported.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party received a large donation from automaker BMW's controlling family before the German government blocked stricter European Union regulations on carbon dioxide emissions, according to parliamentary records released on Tuesday.
A central Chinese county has denied claims that it attempted to raise fines from family planning policy violators to support its strained government treasury.
A controversial auction of Qian Zhongshu’s private letters has been a hot issue in China recently. The family life of Qian, China’s prestigious scholar-novelist is also interesting to the public.
The World Health Organization announced on Tuesday that no samples of the H7N9 bird flu virus has been found in pigs in China, so far.
Family planning authorities in Shanghai Municipality are encouraging couples who are both a single child themselves to have a second baby.
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