An international syndicate involved in illicit diamond trade has been busted in South Africa, authorities said on Monday.
A total of 11 people have been killed by typhoon Rammasun in Vietnam as of Monday morning, said Vietnam' s National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control.
South Korea launched a presidential committee for systematic preparations to reunify with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra authorized her lawyer, Norawit Laleang, to submit a petition to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) on Tuesday against its resolution to dismiss Yingluck's request to include eight additional witnesses.
Chinese authorities have decided to remove two senior officials of north China's Shanxi Province from their posts for suspected serious discipline violations.
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.
Russian Investigative Committee (IC) issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Dmitry Yarosh, leader of Ukraine's radical Right Sector movement.
Vietnam has reported 67 cases of H5N1 bird flu in 21 provinces and cities, said the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Tuesday.
Six government officials in central China's Hunan Province have been removed from their posts over sex scandals.
After much uncertainly, it seems that the Pakistani government and the Taliban are inching towards the much anticipated peace dialogue after the militants formed a committee of senior political and religious leaders to sit face-to- face with the government's negotiators on their behalf.
China should continue its current prudent monetary policy and maintain appropriate liquidity for the world's second-largest economy in 2014, the monetary-policy committee advising the People's Bank of China (PBOC, central bank) said Tuesday in a statement.
Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday ordered to form a fact-finding committee to investigate violent events following the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, state-run Ahram website reported.
About 6,000 companies have applied to register in Shanghai's free trade zone (FTZ) within two months of its launch, the administrative committee of the FTZ said on Thursday.
About 6,000 companies have applied to register in Shanghai's free trade zone (FTZ) within two months of its launch, the administrative committee of the FTZ said on Thursday.
South Korea's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean relations said Monday that it has proposed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for holding a sub-panel dialogue on travel, communication and customs of the Kaesong industrial complex on Nov. 29.
Mainland Basic Law Committee chairman Li Fei said on Saturday that under the Basic Law, only the future nominating committee will have the right to elect the Chief Executive (CE) of Hong Kong.
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