"Now You See Me 2" soared to the top of the Chinese box office, earning 287 million yuan (43.1 million U.S. dollars) in its debut weekend, knocking "Warcraft" off the top perch.
China's delight at Sunway TaihuLight being named the world's fastest supercomputer was made all the more sweeter as it marks a shift from using "off-the-shelf" processors to domestic alternatives.
Gaokao is no ordinary test in China. From praying parents accidentally burning down trees, to forking out a 100,000 yuan to prepare for the career-defining exam, the most important time in a Chinese student's schooling is eventful, to say the least.
The right to be a child's guardian must be removed whenever parents and guardians are found to have sexually abused minors, officials from China's top court said on Tuesday in response to a rise in such cases in recent years.
Half of the top 100 businesses in the country have laid off workers recently, according to conglomerate tracker Chaebul.com on Sunday.
Topping the list for Asia was the Komandoo Maldives Island Resort, which ranked #5 on the World’s Most Romantic list.
At the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night, the journalism drama “Spotlight” won the top prize: outstanding performance by a cast.
For the second consecutive year, Americans' dissatisfaction with U.S. government edged out economy as the country's top problem in 2015, a poll analysis issued Monday by the Gallup showed.
China overtakes Japan as Asia's number one nation for world-class universities, according to the Asia University Rankings 2015 published Wednesday by the Times Higher Education.
China's commitment to purging corruption did not cease when the country's political high season began this month.
Singapore will raise the personal income tax rates for its top earners from 2016, with the top marginal rate up 2 percentage points to 22 percent, in order to meet the needs of surging government expenditure.
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to address the rising threat of global terrorism at Tuesday's annual State of the Union address, just weeks after the bloody massacres in Paris that shocked France and nations worldwide.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday delivered a keynote speech at a new year celebration tea party of the country's top political advisory body.
Travel media company Lonely Planet has named Singapore as the world's top destinations among countries to visit next year, while Washington D.C. of the United States is named the top city to visit, Singapore media reported on Tuesday.
The chief executives of Australia' s top-listed companies earned an average total pay of 4.84 million Australian dollars (4.34 million U.S. dollars) in 2013 - 63 times an average worker's earnings, according to a new report released on Thursday.
The National University of Singapore was ranked the No. 1 university in Asia for the first time, overtaking the University of Hong Kong, according to the World University Rankings by London-based education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds.
New Zealand, along with Iceland, has been judged the world's friendliest nation for tourists, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum.
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