The Philippine government is beefing up emergency employment program to help alleviate the plight of workers displaced by typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda. a government official said Sunday.
Newly elected Maldives President Abdulla Yameen is attempting to put his country's finances in order by reducing the salaries of State run organizations as the Indian Ocean group of islands attempts to cope with high levels of debt.
The role the Chinese government has played in leading economic development is outstanding, yet the backlash from such practices is impeding sustainable development of the economy, prompting the government to give the market more say in allocating resources.
Clear labeling of government cars so that the public can easily identify them and spot their misuse has become a trendy practice among China's local authorities in response to the country's anti-corruption drive.
About 200 people staged a rally outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, expressing disagreement with Australia's tapping action.
At a three-day seminar on tobacco control that ended on Thursday in Beijing, Hu Angang, director of the Research Center for Contemporary China at Tsinghua University, said tobacco is the biggest killer in China, and it is not just a public health issue, but involves the sustainable development of the whole nation.
Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the latest U.S. drone strike that killed at least five students and their teachers of a religious school.
A spokesman with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(SAR) government on Thursday evening refuted a United States report saying the prospects for the region 's universal suffrage by 2017 are dimming, and asked foreign governments to respect China's internal affairs.
The Australian coalition government's carbon tax repeal bill has passed in the House of Representatives due to a majority of the Liberal-National Coalition on Thursday.
Just six days after final approval of change of use on a plot of land owned by his company, Wang Jianzhong jumped from the 15th floor of a government building and died.
Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao said on Thursday the central government will "unswervingly" support the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government and its development of democracy in accordance with the law.
Construction firms in Laos are preparing for a downturn in state investment projects as the Lao government tightens spending to avoid destabilizing debt, state- run daily Vientiane Times reported on Thursday.
While many top officials of the Federal Reserve reckoned that the Fed might start trimming its asset purchase program "in coming months," some others insisted on awaiting more evidence of a recovering job market and economy before making a decision, according to the minutes of the latest Fed policy meeting released Wednesday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawas Sharif Tuesday approved the selection of three judges for a special court to try former President Pervez Musharraf for high treason for abrogating the country's constitution, the PM office said.
The municipal government of Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, on Monday spelled out new rules to cool down the property market following moves by three other mega cities.
A boat carrying about 50 probable asylum seekers has sunk off the Indonesian coast, Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday in a statement while the issue of asylum seekers has once again became the center of political debates in Australia.
The role of the market in China has officially switched from "basic" to "decisive", and is key to understanding the reform agenda.
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