The number of new born babies of Japan hit a record low of 1,029,800 in 2013, leading to the fastest rate of natural population decline, local media reported Wednesday.
The Japanese government on Tuesday agreed on quantifiable means of heightening the nation's disaster preparedness, spanning increasing the number of earthquake- resistant homes and buildings, to boosting the number of emergency services deployable in disaster situations.
The number of missing people in the South Korean ferry sinking disaster was revised up as two Chinese nationals aboard the ill-fated vessel were found later, head of the South Korean coast guard said Thursday.
Death toll in the South Korean ferry sinking accident surged on Tuesday afternoon to 108 as divers were intensively searching inside the submerged hull.
One new human H7N9 case has been confirmed in east China's Jiangsu Province, the provincial health department said on Friday.
Taipei's Palace Museum on Tuesday unveiled an expansion plan to develop an exhibition area and cultural park covering 6.8 hectares to accommodate the growing number of visitors.
As more bodies have been recovered in typhoon affected areas in central Philippines, the number of death toll rose to 5,598.
China has set targets for its nurturing of trained doctors in order to better serve the country's huge rural population, according to a plan publicized on Monday by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Three poachers were sentenced Wednesday by a Zimbabwean court up to 16 years in prison for killing 87 elephants using toxic cyanide in one of Africa's prime elephant sanctuaries, state media reported.
Singapore may see haze return with the number of hotspots surging to 488 in neighboring Indonesia's Sumatra, the city-state's National Environment Agency (NEA) released the data on Monday.
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India has overtaken China as the biggest single source of immigrants to Australia, according to data released Monday.
Beijing will maintain its license plate lottery scheme next year, as well as cap the number of registered cars at 240,000, a local official said Thursday.
China's railways carried a record number of passengers on the first day of 2013 due to a surge in the number of middle- and short-distance travelers during the three-day New Year holiday, the Ministry of Railways said Thursday.
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