The Hong Kong government attaches great importance to protecting foreign domestic workers' rights and interests, Secretary for Labor and Welfare Matthew Cheung said Friday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated a new department secretary to lead the federal health reform programs, accepting resignation of his Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
An Indonesian maid was freed from death penalty in Malaysia on Monday after the head of the judging panel decided to free her from murder charges launched by the prosecutor, a statement released by Indonesian foreign affairs ministry said.
Shanghai tourism authorities started emergency procedures on Thursday following the kidnap of female tourist in Malaysia.
One minute, Xiao Man, 18, is meticulously drawing an earring, copying from a picture on his table. The next, humming loudly, he gets up from his chair and starts pounding on the table.
India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi Wednesday filled her nomination papers to contest the upcoming general elections from Rae Bareli constituency in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Wearing a yellow jacket, pink blouse, bluish gray skirt and high heels, Zong was not as eye-catching as other female attendees with their glittering jewels at the China Development Forum 2014 that concluded on Monday.
Late South African President Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Monday dissociated herself with an upcoming autobiography movie about her life.
Thai caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra Sunday condemned the two attacks in Bangkok's rally sites which killed two, including a four-year-old child and injuring 22 others.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Monday accepted the resignation of scandal-hit Agriculture Minister Nunzia De Girolamo, making way for possible replacements in his fragile left-right government.
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar has left behind a huge fortune, including properties, investments, watches and antiques worth millions, in India, the United Arab Emirates and Canada, sources
Indian Minister Shashi Tharoor's deceased wife Sunanda Pushkar's son -- from her second marriage
Jane Campion, New Zealand director, producer and scriptwriter, is to head the Jury of the 67th Festival de Cannes in 2014, the organisers announced Tuesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has injured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland and will have to cancel several meetings, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday.
The U.S. envoy in India has expressed regret about the "circumstances" of the arrest of an Indian woman diplomat in New York last month on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her maid.
Chile's former president Michelle Bachelet, the center-left New Majority opposition candidate, won the second-round vote on Sunday by 62 percent against 38 percent for her rival Evelyn Matthei of the ruling conservative party, Chile's Electoral Service (Servel) announced.
An elderly Belgian who defiled a 13-year old girl has been jailed for 20 years by a Mombasa court.
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