Ping-Cheng Yeh is an assistant professor of electronics engineering at Taiwan University and one of a few to provide Chinese-language e-learning that is attracting large numbers of mainland students.
Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela was "fully alive," contrary to media reports that he was in a vegetative state, his grandson Mandla Mandela said on Sunday.
Egyptian prosecutors referred Sunday ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 other people to a criminal court over the killing of a journalist and the violence that erupted over his controversial presidential declaration last year, official news agency MENA reported.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that his country is capable of confronting any external aggression, in reference to a possible U.S.-led strike against his country, as Iran, his staunchest ally, pledged constant support to Damascus in face of escalating pressures.
A Pakistani judicial official on Thursday overturned the 33-year imprisonment sentence awarded to Shakeel Afridi, the man who helped the American CIA track down Al- Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, local media reported.
The National Alliance for Supporting Legitimacy, a pro-ousted President Mohamed Morsi bloc, called for massive protests on Friday in an attempt to pressure for the reinstatement of the "legitimate leader," official news agency MENA reported Wednesday.
"I always find that mine is a sort of distracted generation. We're distracted by so many things and we are kind of scattered in many places at the same time,"
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak attended a trial Sunday on charges of inciting violence and murdering protesters, state-TV reported.
In his hands, the bony structure discarded by gourmets is turned into elaborate landscapes and works of art at a gallery in the coastal city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province.
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court announced that the trial of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power involving Bo Xilai adjourned on Sunday morning and will resume on Monday.
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is also co-leader of the opposition Japan Restoration Party, revealed that he has asked the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to retract its resolution condemning his remarks on the so-called "comfort women" in the Japanese military during World War II, saying he has never justified the use of such women under the military regime, local press reported on Friday.
The trial of Bo Xilai, former Communist Party of China (CPC) chief of Chongqing Municipal Committee, opened Thursday morning at Jinan Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province.
Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe was sworn into office on Thursday for another five-year term against the backdrop of Western rejection of his election victory.
The Jinan Intermediate People's Court in east China's Shandong Province continued to hear the bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power case involving Bo Xilai Friday morning.
A military helicopter, carrying Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, arrived in the Maadi Military Hospital in the capital Cairo from Tora prison on Thursday.
An Egyptian court ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak after his petition on his last corruption case was accepted, and he is set to be put under house arrest, while the authorities continued detaining supporters of his successor Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in early July.
The U.S. government on Wednesday designated Mohamed Lahbous, a member of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), as a specially designated global terrorist for his involvement in terrorist activities.
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