The Ministry of Education has urged local authorities to prepare for the upcoming national college entrance examination, known as the "gaokao" next week.
Nissan will be fined about 280,000 U.S. dollars for allegedly manipulating emissions data on a diesel sports utility vehicle in South Korea, the country's environment ministry said Monday.
The South Korean culture ministry announced a set of measures on Thursday to boost the spread of the country's cultural products in the East Asia region as the increasing demand for such products offers huge potential for economic growth.
South Korea and the United States will launch formal talks on Friday about the deployment in the South Korean territory of a sophisticated U.S. missile defense system, Seoul's defense ministry said.
The Japanese government on Friday pledged 1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid to help Latin American countries tackle the Zika virus after a case was confirmed near Tokyo a day earlier.
Seven people killed Tuesday in a natural gas explosion in an apartment building in the Russian city of Yaroslavl, Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The Indonesian information and communication ministry has seriously attempted to block websites created by militants to spread radicalism in the country, a minister said here Monday.
Japan's education ministry said Friday that more than half of the nation's publishers of school textbooks had broken strict censorship regulations, with thousands of teachers potentially being paid illicitly to provide input to the books.
China's environmental authority reported that 50 cities, including Beijing and Tianjin, were subject to heavy smog on Wednesday.
Japan's health ministry is conducting an investigation into pharmaceutical firm Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute over its suspected mishandling of a potentially lethal toxin which can be weaponized to be used in biological warfare.
Japan's transport ministry on Tuesday reached its annual target of receiving 1 million foreign visitors to Japan by cruise ship, more than four years ahead of its proposed target.
French military jets Sunday bombarded a stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) in Raqqa, Syria, French Defence ministry said.
It was the 24th consecutive year of increase since the ministry started compiling such statistics in fiscal 1990.
Myanmar's Foreign Ministry has rejected a "joint statement" of nine countries on the country's upcoming general election, criticizing that the issuance of such statement at this juncture goes against the peaceful environment the Myanmar people have established for a successful holding of the election.
China will include a football training session in the overall student appraisal system, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday.
South Korea and the United States will hold a meeting for a wrong delivery in April by a U.S. military laboratory of live anthrax samples to a U.S. military base in South Korea, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.
Moscow is extremely concerned over the deployment of U.S. medical-biological laboratories near the Russian border, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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