In the race to develop self-driving cars, the United States and Europe lead in technology, but China is coming up fast in the outside lane with a regulatory structure that could put it ahead in the popular adoption of autonomous cars on its highways and city streets.
There has been an "enormous rise" in the demand for self-defense products including personal safety alarms, tactical pens and keychains in China following a hotel assault in early April.
From attention-seeking celebrities to digital oversharing and the boom in cosmetic surgery, narcissistic behaviour is all around us. How worried should we be about our growing self-obsession?
Beijing has started to regulate electric self-balancing scooters after Shanghai and several other major cities recently prohibited their use on roads.
Patients who have been treated for cancer of the central nervous system (CNS) (or brain tumors) in childhood or adolescence can show affected self-perception and self-identity in adulthood, according to latest study by the Karolinska Institutet.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced the upcoming parliamentary elections in the self- proclaimed "people's republics" in eastern regions, calling them " illegitimate."
Those who self-harm as teenagers are more at risk of developing mental health problems as adults, new research in Britain from the biggest study of its kind has revealed.
The third International Self- Care Day was celebrated on Thursday in Washington with experts in attendance promoting healthy lifestyles such as regular exercise and avoiding smoking and responsible use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines as a "very useful weapon" in the fight against chronic diseases.
The Japanese government has launched a special team under the National Security Secretariat to prepare relevant legislation for exercising the collective self-defense right following the Cabinet's decision the previous day to lift the ban on it, local media reported Wednesday.
The Japanese government on Friday submitted its final draft decision on lifting the ban on collective self-defense to the ruling bloc, which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet expects to approve as early as July 1, local media reported.
The secretaries-general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito agreed Wednesday that a Cabinet decision to enable Japan to exercise collective self-defense right is hard to come before the current Diet session which ends Sunday, local media reported.
As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe steamrolls ahead with his signature dictum to allow Japanese forces the right to collective self-defense, some within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition believe that more time and debate is needed on the thorny issue.
A poll conducted in Japan has shown that more than half of interviewees are against allowing the country to exercise the right of collective self-defense.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Thursday to beef up Japan's defense capability and actively debate on the rights of collective self-defense.
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