"It is time for us to pause, to rethink the future of our city design and transport planning, and to put pedestrians back on our policy map," a Hong Kong official said in a public forum as experts and professionals call for making the city more "walkable city".
At least 11 people were injured when a remote-controlled blast hit Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Wednesday morning, reported local Urdu TV channel Dunya.
Australia's New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell said on Tuesday Sydneysiders stand beside the people of Boston as they face the tragic bombing during the city's Marathon.
No bird flu virus was found in dead pig samples from a river that provides drinking water to residents in Shanghai where two died in the first human infections of a new avian influenza strain, authorities said Monday.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in a Shiite mosque in a city in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 75 others, a local police source told Xinhua.
At least five more people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38 in such attacks during the week from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, local media and police said.
Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung said on Wednesday in his first policy address that promoting economic development is the primary goal of the city's government as sustained economic growth is a prerequisite for Hong Kong to tackle housing, poverty, aging population and environmental problems.
Out of concern for its air quality, Beijing has stepped up efforts to phase out old, heavy-polluting motor vehicles, the local environmental watchdog said Tuesday.
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