A candidate backed by Japan's ruling coalition was defeated by an opposition candidate in a local election for a governorship on Sunday, as voters showed increasing opposition to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe'move to change a vital security policy.
Health professionals and tobacco control experts in China have called for tobacco advertising to be fully outlawed as the draft amendment to the Advertising Law failed to stipulate the ban explicitly.
A complete ban on shark finning - - catching sharks solely for their fins -- in New Zealand waters could be brought forward by two years, the New Zealand government announced Thursday.
The local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir government Tuesday revoked a four-year-old ban on Short Messaging Services (SMS) on pre-paid cell phones in the restive region.
Shao Guoqing hauled his boat and fishing equipment onshore as the Yangtze, dubbed China's Mother River, entered its three-month fishing moratorium on Tuesday.
An Indian army soldier was wounded Tuesday after a landmine went off close to the line-of-control (LoC) in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
Fresh air made a welcome return to ongoing annual meetings of local legislatures and political advisory bodies across China thanks to a government smoking ban.
New year cards and calendars used to be popular gifts for seasons' greetings, but this year, many of them may well be left in the stock room, due to a ban on government purchasing of greeting cards.
Australia on Tuesday maintained a ban issued by the previous Labor government to bar China's telecom company Huawei from bidding for the country's high speed national Internet program, local media reported.
Malaysia and Cambodia are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on lifting the ban on taking Cambodian maids into Malaysia, it is reported here Tuesday.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Monday sent a senior official to South Korea to protest its ban on fisheries products from eight prefectures in Japan, imposed over safety fears concerning radioactive water leaking from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
A survey by the Chinese Health Ministry has revealed that China's ban on smoking in indoor public spaces has been mostly ignored.
Little can be done to stop horrific U.S. mass shootings such as last week's killing of 20 children ages 6 and 7, said a leading U.S. expert who consults law enforcement on mass murder cases.
A high-ranking official of the largest gun-rights organization in the United States, the National Rifle Association, on Sunday refused to support new gun-control legislation, but insisted the group's push for putting armed guards in schools in response to the Dec.14 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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