Panda cub Bao Bao, who turned one Saturday, took a morning walk in her yard in the National Zoo here, kicking off a much-anticipated party to celebrate her first birthday.
State employment still favored by most Vietnamese job seekers.
A 35-year-old Nigerian woman who was traveling from Nigeria to India for cancer treatment has died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after showing symptoms similar to those of the lethal Ebola virus, Abu Dhabi's health authority said on Sunday, according to UAE's state news agency WAM.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has returned to Thailand from her vacation as scheduled, quashing speculation that she might flee the country to avoid a thorny case, local media reported Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraq's religious and ethnic minorities, faced with death threats and forced conversions, have begun their exodus from their regional homelands since Islamic State militants seized their towns and villages in northern Iraq early in June.
On the 7th day of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, Belgian brother directors expressed their reflection on the current economic crisis in Europe, while a Japanese woman filmmaker explored nature in their movies presented in Competition on Tuesday
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday evening held a brief meeting with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, before their official talks scheduled on Monday morning.
A pet kangaroo has helped its Australian owner detect skin cancer by continually licking at sores, local media reported on Tuesday.
Vietnam's recently amended Marriage and Family Law has allowed surrogate mothers for humanitarian purposes, which is believed to bring hope to many Vietnamese women who are incapable of child bearing.
Recent reports about U.S. actress Angelina Jolie seeking Namibian citizenship were questionable, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye started her three-nation trip to Central Asia on Monday to boost economic cooperation with the energy-rich countries and strengthen her signature policy of the so-called Eurasia Initiative.
Likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's favorability rating is dropping, signaling an end to her era of high favorability even before she announces her run for president, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.
British Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday outlined the proposed policies and legislative agenda for her government in the coming year at the state opening of parliament in London.
After Wang Qian gave birth to her baby girl, her two-year-old son visited her in hospital. Wang passed a present to the boy, telling him, "This is a gift from your little sister."
A young woman who killed and dismembered a kitten and posted the bloody pictures on the Internet has angered many in China, a country that has witnessed a host of animal abuse cases in recent years.
A female suspect named Gao Yu was detained for leaking "state secrets" to foreign contacts, said Beijing police on Thursday.
India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi on Monday denied the rumor that she will contest polls against the country's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial contender Narendra Modi from Varanasi.
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