Thirteen Tibetan monks have become the first followers of the Bonpo branch of Tibetan Buddhism to graduate from a Tibetan Buddhism doctorate program in Beijing.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister Yo-jong was elected to the Workers Party's central committee at the party congress that came to an end on Monday.
The ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has wrapped up its 7th Congress which lasted four days and top leader Kim Jong Un has been elected chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), it was announced Monday.
Combating corruption is a very important task while the fight remains difficult and complicated in Vietnam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong said on Wednesday.
PolyU omitted two offshore subsidiaries from its financial reports
A Brazilian congressional committee on Monday voted in favor of moving forward with the impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
The government's new student suicide prevention committee will be headed by one of the city’s foremost experts as administers put their heads together to combat an alarming rise in deaths.
Police were called to restore order in Hong Kong on March 29 after protesters clashed with members of the Standard Working Hours Committee.
An investigation into a passenger jet crash in southern Russia was underway, as experts began to decipher information from one of the two damaged flight data recorders, Russian authorities said on Monday.
The draft outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan on national economy and social development was endorsed by the National People's Congress (NPC) Financial and Economic Committee (FEC) at a meeting on Wednesday.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted on Monday that the issue of "comfort women" remains unsettled despite recent Japanese claims to the contrary.
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been banned by the FIFA ethics committee for eight years each on Monday.
Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party will hold an extempore party congress next Saturday at the earliest in a bid to improve its souring prospects in the island's leadership election next January.
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday requested documents from Volkswagen and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding the company's illegal software used to circumvent emissions test for certain models of diesel engine passenger vehicles.
Thailand's National Reform Council (NRC) on Sunday voted 135: 105, with 7 abstentions, to reject a 124-page draft constitution.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday issued instructions of his crucial reform plan, included cutting of up to 90 percent, of the number of guards for Iraqi top and senior officials, according to a statement from the office of prime minister.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sacked 13 members from his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) 's central committee, just hours after a parliamentary election was concluded on Monday.