China's top legislature on Thursday ratified two new national days, one to mark victory of the war against Japanese aggression and the other to commemorate victims in the Nanjing Massacre.
The Nepalese government is planning to introduce a National Employment Policy within the next fiscal year to promote youth employment in the country, an official said Thursday.
The Lao government has established a committee to push for better revenue collection amid budgetary tension in the wake of a revenue shortfall, according to state-run daily Vientiane Times on Tuesday.
Myanmar achieved some important developments in 2013 with a new political culture emerging within Myanmar society where different political groups avoided direct confrontation and instead overcame challenges through negotiation and dialogue, said President U Thein Sein in his new year speech to the nation on Thursday.
The anti-apartheid icon Mandela's statue will be erected at the Presidency next week, the South African government announced on Thursday.
The plenum of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which concluded last week, wasn't entirely about economic reform as expected, with the formation of a new national security commission turning out to be an eye-catching part of China's ambitious reform agenda.
China's National Bureau of Statistics plans to revise the current system of measuring the national economy in line with latest international standards, an NBS official said.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday announced the multi-agency team has defeated attackers and "that part has been completed."
Indonesia, in an effort to build a green economy, is boosting green financing services by national banks to companies aiming at addressing environmental issues in the country, officials said at a meeting here Wednesday.
French police have said that the final death toll in Friday's train derailment south of Paris is now definitive at six, media reported on Saturday.
The Egyptian army on Monday set 48 hours as a deadline for all parties to resolve the crisis before imposing a military-supervised roadmap for the future of Egypt, the defense minister said in an audio speech aired on state TV.
Further cooperation between ASEAN member nations and with dialogue partners are necessary in combating trans-national crimes involving drug and human trafficking, terrorism and high technologies for the sake of peace, stability and development in the region.
China plans to raise its defense budget by 10.7 percent to 720.2 billion yuan (114.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2013, according to a budget report to be reviewed by the national legislature.
Sinopec Corp., Asia's biggest oil refiner, has said it is upgrading desulphurization facilities and will supply cleaner oil products from 2014 over public concerns about oil quality.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled Australia's first national security strategy on Wednesday, saying Australia's primary national security focus will be on the Asian region in a post 9/11 era.
Experts at a Chinese think tank say China will surpass the United States both socially and economically by 2049 - the year the People's Republic of China will celebrate its centennial anniversary.
As Turkey is completing preparations to deploy NATO's Patriot missiles along its borders with Syria, Syrian cabinet met here Tuesday to find mechanisms to put into effect the fresh vision of President Bashar al-Assad on a political solution to the country's 22-month crisis.
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