Most villages in Brunei have difficulties handling safety issues including fighting against crimes, said the secretariat of Excellent Village Awards.
At least 12 Al-Shabaab militants were on Tuesday killed by government forces in heavy clashes in a village near Garbaherey town in Gedo region, southern Somalia, officials and witnesses said.
Former NBA stars Jason Williams and Daniel Gibson are expected to give China's grassroots sports a boost when they play in the village-level basketball competition in southeast China.
Amidst wail and shock, residents of the village of Duma in West Bank show great sadness when they talked about the 18-month-old Palestinian toddler who was burned to death in a Jewish arson attack on the house in the village.
Twenty villagers were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters on Monday stormed a remote village in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, survivors said Tuesday.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) army, supported by the intervention brigade of the UN Mission for Stabilization of Congo, on Sunday dislodged Uganda's Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels from Mavume village in North Kivu province, an official said Monday.
Cambodian local authorities said Tuesday that up to 90 people in a remote village in the Battambang province of northwestern Cambodia have been tested positive for HIV/AIDS.
Using smartphones for the first time in their lives, villagers in a remote mountainous region in southwest China are now connected to the world thanks to mobile Internet.
A widespread effort that will see hundreds of villages receive lessons on the philosophy of Confucius has begun in the sage's hometown of Qufu.
Eight people were confirmed dead and 17 others remained missing after a landslide destroyed a village in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Wednesday night.
Lin Zulian, who has led Wukan since his election two years ago, has been reelected head of the village committee, in south China's Guangdong Province.
Lin Zulian has been reelected head of a new village committee in Wukan after thousands of residents cast their votes on Monday, despite torrential rains and corruption scandals.
A fatal fire that broke out on Friday in a village in east China's Shandong Province was the result of arson, local police said Tuesday.
A man shot dead six people and wounded three others at a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Thursday afternoon, local police said on Friday.
A man shot dead six people and wounded three others at a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province Thursday afternoon, local police said on Friday.
Leftist rebels have abducted a soldier and a policeman in southern Philippines and operations have been launched to rescue the victims, the military said on Friday.
A landslide engulfed a village in southwest China's Yunnan Province last Friday, killing 46 people. By Sunday, government authorities had cremated all the bodies, triggering anger from victims' families.