Authorities in Shenzhen announced a car purchasing restriction requiring prospective buyers to acquire new car plates by lottery or auction on Monday.
Two persons were injured as an explosion took place in church street area of Bangalore city in South India on Sunday evening, local media reported.
An international conference on literary culture will be organized for New Zealand's southern city of Dunedin to celebrate its designation as a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) City of Literature, Mayor Dave Cull announced Tuesday.
The Kuomintang Party won six county and city chief seats in Taiwan's biggest-ever local elections held Saturday, while the opposition Democratic Progressive Party landed 13 seats, according to the island's electoral authorities.
The Syrian troops on Thursday advanced in a contested town in the southern province of Daraa and killed a local commander of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in that town, according to the state news agency SANA.
Eleven people were arrested in Belgium on Thursday over demonstrations held earlier in November which turned violent.
Vietnamese and Chinese localities are scheduled to co-hold a border trade, tourism fair from Dec. 22 to 26, according to a conference in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province on Monday.
A total of 49 percent of all residents of the Austrian capital of Vienna have an immigrant background, meaning they were either born abroad themselves or have at least one parent who was, new study results have shown.
The 25th ASEAN Summit and its related meetings kicked off here on Wednesday, when leaders from 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries gather here to discuss the future development of the bloc and meet leaders from regional and world powers to promote ties.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday held "constructive discussions" with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian government officials in Damascus, the Envoy's office said.
Authorities Tuesday imposed strict curfew and restrictions in most parts of Srinagar city to prevent religious procession on occasion of the 10th of Muharram and anti-military protests in the wake of civilian killings, officials said.
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) on Tuesday summoned the mayor of Anyang City in central China's Henan Province to discuss the city's smog response measures, the latest in China's efforts to curb its smog problem before APEC meetings this week in Beijing.
The Jerusalem city hall announced Wednesday the launch of an aerial surveillance unit that would help security forces curb a wave of riots in Arab neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group released 25 Kurdish students it had snatched in Syria's northern province of Aleppo last May, a monitoring group said Wednesday.
At least nine militants had been killed in shooting out with police in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Sunday afternoon, police said.
As many as 50 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group were either killed or injured on Sunday during fresh clashes with the Kurdish fighters in Syria's predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab on the Syrian-Turkish borders, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV.
The G20 cultural festival in Australian city of Brisbane kicked off on Friday featuring a spectacular laser light and projection show.
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