Outdated water ducts have been blamed for contamination of tap water that affected 2.4 million people in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou in April, local authorities announced Thursday.
Police in south China's Guangdong Province have captured 3,033 suspects and busted 214 gangs in a crackdown on prostitution, they announced on Thursday.
Protests continued and commercial activities were suspended in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday after Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain was arrested on Tuesday for interrogation in Britain, local media reported.
A forest fire that has raged in east China's Shandong Province since Thursday afternoon was contained on Friday morning. No casualties were reported and hundreds of locals have been evacuated to emergency shelters nearby.
Twenty-two people were killed and 24 others wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq on Thursday, police and medical sources said
Tourism to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is booming in northeast China border cities on the back of multiple travel schemes aimed at boosting the regional economy.
A total of 22 policemen in Dongguan, the south China city notorious for its illegal sex trade, have been punished in a crackdown on prostitution, local police said on Tuesday.
This week's completion of major maintenance work at a World Heritage temple in the historical city of Uji in western Japan is putting pressure on the local assembly to approve a draft ordinance that encourages residents to serve guests to the city with local tea, known as Uji Tea, instead of alcoholic drinks. Such a rule will be the first of its kind in Japan if introduced.
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung on Tuesday said the progress in implementing measures set out in his manifesto and Policy Address is satisfactory, and the city government remains open to people's scrutiny.
The Afghanistan Interior Ministry has accused foreign intelligence of organizing the deadly offensive in the eastern Jalalabad city on Thursday which left 18 people including 10 police dead and 15 others wounded.
Four people were killed in a hospital fire in Huangshi City in central China's Hubei Province Sunday, local authorities told Xinhua.
Sydney has been ranked the eighth most livable city in Australia, a national survey of residents' views of their own city released on Monday by the Property Council of Australia show.
To the beat of deafening Carnival music and whistles, 30,000 revelers took to the streets of the western Greece city port of Patras on Sunday to celebrate life and beat the financial woes through satire.
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Beijing's hutongs in the heavy smog on Tuesday, calling for strengthened efforts to address pollution and improved city management.
Representatives of Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City will attend the Singapore Yacht Show 2014 for the first time in April to promote river tourism which is expected to become a major product of this southern economic hub, local media reported Wednesday.
The Egyptian army managed on Monday to rescue four tourists who got lost in a mountainous area in South Sinai's Saint Catherine city, while three others were found dead and one is still missing, the military spokesperson said in a statement.
When a recent sex trade crackdown brought the Chinese city of Dongguan under spotlight, netizens launched another online campaign featuring the city's glories.
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