Shenzhen is to set up a 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) fund to improve public safety, part of efforts to build a modern, international city.
Beijing is exploring ways to improve the quality of the city's goods and services, as part of nationwide supply-side structural reform.
Surging house prices in Australia' s largest cities has contributed to the nation being the second least-affordable country to buy a house, a report revealed on Monday.
The U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. on Friday nervously braced for a potentially historic winter storm, two days after botched response by local authorities to a snowfall paralyzed the whole town.
As menswear grows less formal, L.A. is emerging as a new style capital. (Just ask Saint Laurent’s Hedi Slimane.) Here’s how to ace its smart take on casual, even if the nearest palm tree is 1,000 miles away.
Japan's Kobe and its surrounding areas marked on Sunday the 21st anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that claimed the lives of 6,434 people in 1995.
Apple Inc. continued its rapid expansion in China during the first month of 2016, opening five stores to tap the company's fastest-growing market.
A H5N6 virus infected mother gave birth to a healthy child in the city of Zhaoqing in south China's Guangdong Province, according to a local hospital.
Shenzhen police have taken compulsory measures against 12 people, including company executives, responsible for a landslide on Dec. 20 that left dozens missing in the city.
Beijing has issued its first red alert for air pollution under a four-tier emergency response system created in October 2013.
A Philippine political party formally endorsed Monday a mayor of southern city of Davao as its presidential bet in the 2016 elections.
Since the city’s 1997 handover, about 879,000 cross-border immigrants have made the city their home.
The eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, host of next year's Group of Twenty (G20) summit, is ready to enchant world's leaders with its idyllic beauty and rich cultural heritage.
About a century ago, the porcelain crafts from Jingdezhen in east China's Jiangxi Province were among the most sought products in Europe, with nobility paying vast sums to obtain the treasures.
Russia held on Sunday a series of mourning events for victims of Saturday's crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt, which killed all the 224 people onboard.
At least 20 people were killed and 10 others were injured in a car accident on a road linking capital city of Tehran to Iran's religious city of Qom on Sunday, state IRIB TV reported.
Taliban militants who captured Kunduz city, the capital of Kunduz province 250 km north of Kabul on Sept. 29, have confirmed their withdrawal from the city, on Tuesday, in the wake of stiff resistance from the government forces.