"X-Men: Apocalypse" is projected to top the box office during the Memorial Day weekend in North America with approximately 80 million U.S. dollars of revenue.
Squeezed by high costs and unpredictable demand, some factories in the southern manufacturing heartland are turning to a new strategy to survive: hiring workers by the day.
Customers of Australian telecommunications company Telstra took full advantage of a "free data day" on Sunday, downloading an unprecedented 2,686 terabytes of data as part of an apology for a widespread and crippling network outage last month.
At least three people were killed and eight others wounded in eastern Ukraine in the past day amid escalation of violence, reports from the conflicting parties showed Tuesday.
The prices of crude oil are most likely to stay at relatively low levels in the near future as there are no signs of major producers taking actions to ease a severe oil glut yet. Nevertheless, some energy officials and analysts said that they expect the oil glut to gradually rebalance itself into 2016, though the high oil prices seen in the past may not be recovered soon.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Wednesday that a free, quality kindergarten-education policy will be implemented from the 2017-18 school year.
Chinese shares moved up slightly on Wednesday as investors were cautious ahead of an expected interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
OPEC on Friday did not set a new oil output ceiling, with major oil producers reluctant to cut the supply.
The Philippine government has started preparing for its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2017, coinciding with the 50th founding anniversary of the regional grouping, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Wednesday.
Chinese shares remained in positive territory for the second-consecutive day on Wednesday following the government's fresh fiscal stimulus measures.
More than 700 people gathered at a school in Shaanxi Province, northwest China, on Tuesday to mourn victims of last week's landslide.
Chinese port city Tianjin stops Tuesday morning to mourn for the more than 100 who died from last week's warehouse blasts.
Oil prices fell Thursday as worries that global supply might surpass demand persisted.
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened by 35 basis points to 6.3975 against the U.S. dollar on Friday after a three-day slump, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.
Saudi-led alliance resumed its air raids against Yemen's Shiite Houthi group in the southern port city of Aden shortly after a five-day truce expired late Sunday, army sources said.
For Roberto Medina, founder of Brazilian music festival commonly known as " Rock in Rio," the past weekend was a time when his dream became true.
The U.S. capital city Washington D.C. on Thursday marks the 153rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
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