More Hong Kong and Singaporean terms added to Oxford English Dictionary, including yum cha, milk tea, wet market, and from Lion City sabo, HDB, ang moh and a new meaning for blur
Indonesia has not given Singapore a list of its fugitives as previously reported, said the foreign ministries of the two countries.
Adele has been named as Britain's richest ever female musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) has disclosed dozens of additional items and materials to be banned from entering North Korea as part of its effort to further tighten its sanctions on the communist state, a document on its website showed Tuesday.
Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, registered the country's worst air quality in the first quarter of 2016, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Monday.
The wealth writers generate through royalty may not necessarily tell how good their works are, but it's an indicator of the readers' taste.
Chinese actress and UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador Yao Chen was selected asone of the "Young Global Leaders" in 2016 by the World Economic Forum. 13 other Chinesewere also on the list.
A total of 85 enterprises working with hazardous chemicals in Binhai New Area of north China's Tianjin municipality will be closed or relocated after district safety checks concluded.
The identities of 17 victims have been confirmed in a bus fire caused by arson in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, according to local authorities.
Air New Zealand has once again made the list of the top 20 safest airlines in the world.
The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic circle.
The panel of The Business Times Wine Challenge 2015 - CEOs' Choice, who include chief judge Lim Hwee Peng (front row, far left) and Les Amis wine director Timothy Goh (front row, far right).
India has denied a media report that said it had handed over to Nepal a list of seven amendments to the neighboring nation's new constitution, said local media Thursday.
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Tuesday that he hopes Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States this week could help push forward negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
South Korea's Red Cross on Wednesday picked 500 candidates for separated families who could be allowed to join the reunion event with their long-lost relatives in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Jennifer Lawrence was listed as the world's highest-paid actress by the Forbes magazine Thursday for her starring in the "Hunger Games" film series and her sponsorship contract with Dior.
The main Argentine soccer stars will be part of the national team that will play friendly matches next September in the United States, international press reported on Monday.