Thirteen people have been confirmed dead and one more remained missing after an explosion at a firework plant in central China's Hunan Province on Monday, local authorities said on Tuesday.
By the end of next year, the three core Ebola hit countries in West Africa will have lost about 809 million U.S. dollars in their economies, the World Bank predicted.
China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) started the fifth round of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations in Beijing on Monday.
The Chinese government has kept its January-July budget on overseas trips, vehicles and receptions level with last year's figure amid the country's frugality campaign, according to an official report issued on Wednesday.
South Korean shares fell to the lowest in more than a week on Thursday as a private gauge of manufacturing activity in China, the country's largest trading partner, contracted to the three-month low.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired three short-range projectiles into eastern waters on Thursday morning, Yonhap News Agency and YTN reported.
Foreigners in possession of valid work or residence permit in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda will be given an East Africa Tourism visa valid for six months, authorities announced on Sunday.
Rescue teams Wednesday resumed search for a plane with five people on board that disappeared around Tuesday noon over Brazil's Amazon jungle.
Myanmar has set up a national-level committee in an effort to move the country out of least developed country (LDC) category, state media reported Wednesday.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday "expressed their profound outrage at and condemned in the strongest terms" the killing of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were discovered near the city of Hebron on June 30, underling "the need to bring perpetrators of these acts to justice. "
South Korea's foreign car imports surged over the past three years as small and diesel cars from Europe became popular among consumers, customs data showed Wednesday.
South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday that it will return one saved sailor from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to Pyongyang among three as the two asked for remaining in Seoul.
Militancy and conflicts have left 18 people dead and more than a dozen others injured in Afghanistan on Monday as Taliban launched their spring offensive.
Politicians and experts from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea on Tuesday called for accelerating talks on a trilateral free trade agreement to ease political tensions, as they spoke at a forum aimed at boosting regional cooperation.
The Japanese Coast Guard announced that its teams rescued an Indonesian sailor and found the bodies of three sailors on Monday, one day after they went missing with three other crew members, following a fire on board a tuna fishing boat in waters far off the western Japanese island of Shikoku.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on Monday announced that they were ordering three American diplomats who were allegedly found to be related to the violent actions that have gripped the country since Feb. 12 to leave Venezuela within 48 hours.
Two trawlers capsized after collision with a cargo ship which also hit their fishing nets off the western Japanese prefecture of Wakayama on Friday morning
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