Wu Jianmin, former Chinese ambassador to France, died in a car accident early Saturday morning in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, according to the Foreign Ministry.
An Indian court Friday sentenced five men to life in jail for the gang rape of a 52-year-old Danish tourist in the capital in 2014.
China aims to complete military reform and have armed forces capable of informationized warfare by 2020, according to a five-year military development plan published on Thursday.
The retired junta general who steered Myanmar's last five years of reforms has temporarily become a monk, according to state media, days after he ceded power to a new government led by Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party.
Six people were sentenced to jail for running a prostitution ring in Macao, the special administrative region's primary court ruled on Thursday.
Chinese lawmakers on Wednesday approved the country's economic and social development blueprint for the 2016-2020 period, which sets targeted average annual economic growth at above 6.5 percent in the next five years.
At least five children were killed and five others went missing Sunday after a boat carrying 13 children capsized in eastern Indian state of Bihar, officials said.
Seven people including five armed insurgents were killed as Taliban conducted a suicide attack on a base of the Border Police Force in the border town of Spin Boldak, Kandahar province on Monday, police said.
Myanmar is drafting its second five-year plan ( 2016-17 to 2020-2021) aiming to boost economic growth by encouraging investment in the public and private sectors to ensure higher local productivity through the process of industrialization , official media reported Thursday.
To ensure a medium-high level of economic growth for the next five years, China has moved to foster new growth engines as old ones lose steam.
China's newly-released Five-Year Plan has attracted worldwide attention and sparked a buzz as it lays out the development guidelines and targets of the world's second-largest economy in the next five years, whose development and prosperity will benefit the world as a whole.
The initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is being offered up by China as a vision for a more prosperous region with connectivity and interdependence, an Australian economist said.
Leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met on Monday in Beijing to discuss a key five-year plan for the world's second largest economy.
Annual increased import of Myanmar is forcing the country to seek legislation to protect the interest of local businesses as trade deficit sustained for the past several years.
The 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will hold its fifth plenary session in Beijing in October.
At least five bomb threats were reported on Tuesday against flights of five airliners leaving or landing in the United States, U.S. media reported, citing government sources that the threats were not deemed credible.
Yi Xie, professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, was on Wednesday honored with the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards 2015, together with four other women for their ground-breaking discoveries in physical sciences.
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