Malaysia said Monday that it would seek clarification from Singapore over allegations that the city state has played a role in facilitating spying on Malaysia.
A spokesman with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(SAR) government on Thursday evening refuted a United States report saying the prospects for the region 's universal suffrage by 2017 are dimming, and asked foreign governments to respect China's internal affairs.
The Chinese mainland has 157 billionaires as of 2013, ranking second in the number of billionaires worldwide, a banker said Tuesday.
Iran has significantly slowed down the expansion of its uranium enrichment capacity in the past three months, a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showed on Thursday.
Iran's deputy minister of industry, mines and commerce was killed here on Sunday evening, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Federal employees were furloughed for a combined total of 6.6 million days during the 16-day partial federal government shutdown starting Oct. 1, the most number in all government shutdowns of the country, the White House said Thursday.
Readings from China's first ocean development index were published on Wednesday and will provide valuable information as the country looks to boost its marine economy and build itself into a maritime power.
A UN fact-finding group is expected to present its final report on Syria's chemical weapons in early December as a number of samples from Syria are still being studied in designated laboratories, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here Thursday.
The volume of the mobile shopping market in China reached 34.1 billion yuan (5.59 billion U.S. dollars) in the third quarter of 2013, a major tech industry analyst said on Tuesday.
The U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment edged down to 7.2 percent, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.
Turkey welcomed EU accession report issued by the European Union (EU), but lashed out at the stalled negotiations due to political blockage by some EU member states.
Gunmen opened fire on a group of wedding guests outside a Christian church in Egypt's capital of Cairo on Sunday night, killing at least two and wounding 12 others, official news agency MENA reported.
High debt ratios amid weak growth in developed economies and emerging vulnerability in the developing world shadowed the global fiscal landscape, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday in its newly-released report.
Macedonia is among the ten best places to start a business, according to the latest World Bank report.
Parts of New Zealand could be exposed to tsunami that could be 50 percent bigger than previous estimates, government scientists warned Monday.
The United States is on the way to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, a U.S. government report said Thursday.
Political missions deployed in volatile environments around the world are " indispensable" in defusing tensions, bringing countries back from the brink of conflict and building sustainable peace, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon here Wednesday.
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