Myanmar President U Thein Sein Monday called on the people to cooperate with the government in exposing instigators of the recent sectarian riot that took place in the second largest city of Mandalay.
Ji Zhongxing, who was charged of setting off explosives at the Beijing Capital International Airport in July, was sentenced to six years in jail on Tuesday, according to a court ruling.
Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 4.5 percent in August over a year earlier, narrowing from an increase of 6.9 percent in July, the Census and Statistics Department announced Monday.
The government said separately that the country's job availability improved for the fifth straight month, with the ratio of job offers to applicants up to 0.94 in July from 0.92 in June.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, grew 2.7 percent year on year in July, staying flat from June, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday.
The U.S. stocks closed mixed after volatile trading on Monday following record runs in the previous week, with the Nasdaq Composite Index eking out small gains, as the U.S. non-manufacturing activity index for July came in positive.
South Korea's consumer prices rose at a faster pace in July due to higher prices of farm goods and oil products, a government report showed Thursday.
President Xi Jinping has called for deepening China's reform and opening-up efforts in order to maintain a healthy economy and achieve the goals set during the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Three more people have been confirmed dead due to continuous rain that has lashed the city of Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province since July 3, bringing the death toll to 26, the local government said Sunday.
Twenty-nine giant carnivals are planned in Honk Hong on July 1, the day of the 16th Anniversary of its reunification with China, hoping to attract an audience of 100,000.
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