China joined the group of countries with a high level of human development, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Monday.
North China's Shanxi Province has launched an innovative way to select candidates for its local elections, hoping for a cleaner political environment after a spate of corruption cases.
Excessive ozone gas has become the prime pollution problem in Beijing in recent days, replacing the notorious PM2.5, and it's likely to linger for a couple of days, the capital's environmental monitoring authority said on Monday.
The weather has gone from extremely hot to extremely wet. Now, several major rivers passing through townships such as Shah Alam, Subang and Sungai Buloh are threatening to burst their banks
Growth in New Zealand's services sector slowed last month to its lowest level in more than a year, according to the latest performance of services index (PSI) released on Tuesday.
China's average annual rise in sea level from 1980 to 2015 was 3 millimeters, higher than the global average, according to a report released by the State Oceanic Administration on Tuesday.
More than 900 million Chinese voters are expected to directly elect more than 2.5 million lawmakers in county or township-level elections set to begin this year, top legislator Zhang Dejiang said on Wednesday.
The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.
Growth in New Zealand's manufacturing sector surged to its highest level of 2015 in December, according to the latest performance of manufacturing index (PMI) out Thursday.
A dangerous trail connecting 10,000 villagers in northwest China's Gansu Province to the outside world was replaced by an 18-kilometer gravel road earlier this year.
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to hold a vice ministerial-level meeting next month in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong, Seoul's unification ministry said on Friday.
Australia develops new terror alert system to deal with "probable" threat of attack
South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) continued their dialogue early Tuesday as talks for the reunion of Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War lasted for more than 14 hours.
S. Africa's business confidence drops to 16-year low
About 120 residents reached evacuation site located in northwest of a volcano which erupted at around 10: 00 a.m. local time Friday in Kuchinoerabu island off Kagoshima Prefecture in southwest Japan, said top spokesman of the Japanese government.
All 31 U.S. largest banks passed a 5 percent minimum hurdle for top-tier capital in an annual stress test by the Federal Reserve, the central bank said on Thursday.
State police sectors throughout Australia raised their terror warnings from medium to high on Tuesday following recent terror-related incidents in Sydney, Canada and France.
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