China's upcoming new year festival season may see a new milestone for box office sales, with domestic movies and foreign blockbusters scheduled to hit the screen.
"Police Story 2013," a police action thriller from Jackie Chan, remained top of China's box office charts in the week ending on Jan. 5, grossing 168 million yuan (27.77 million U.S. dollars), according to a film industry weekly.
The UN spokesperson's office said on Thursday that aid organizations need a financing of 166 million U.S. dollars now to save lives amid continuing violence in South Sudan.
A big blast rocked Afghan capital city Kabul, followed by gun shots on Thursday, with casualties feared, an official said on the condition of anonymity.
Japan launched on Wednesday a U.S.- style National Security Council (NSC), under which cabinet ministers discussed China's air defense identification zone (ADIZ) and other security challenges in the first meeting.
The island city of Xiamen in east China's Fujian Province has started building its first subway line, local authorities announced Wednesday.
A case of suspected food poisoning in east China's Anhui Province has led to 29 students being hospitalized, local authorities said on Friday.
A group of hooded perpetrators attacked with petrol bombs the political office of Greek Shipping Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis on Wednesday evening, causing material damages, but no injuries, according to police.
Taiwan's leading trade promotion agency has opened its third mainland office in the southern booming city of Guangzhou in a latest bid to promote cross-Strait economic and trade cooperation.
Two more senior officials at provincial level were expelled from the Party and removed from their posts for involvement in corruption, following the investigation of a ministerial official earlier this week.
Due to the growing trade and interdependence among each other, Nepal and China have proceeded to set up the office of consulate general in each other's territory.
The North American box office over the weekend was dominated by "The Butler", a biopic featuring what was happening at the White House throughout eight U.S. presidencies, as the film has drawn more enthusiastic moviegoers than expected, enabling it to outperform three other new wide releases.
An Internet marketing company has been shut down for illegally disseminating news information by masquerading as an official news source, according to the State Information Office.
Chennai Express, the new film of India's Bollywood star Shah Rikh Khan, took theaters by storm on the first day of its presentation.
Sci-fi blockbuster "Pacific Rim" topped China's box office charts in the week ending Aug. 4, grossing 290.5 million yuan (47.46 million U.S. dollars).
China's central authorities on Tuesday introduced a five-year ban on the construction of new government buildings as part of an ongoing frugality campaign.
A senior official from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has met with a representative from the head office of pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), urging the company to cooperate with the Chinese police in investigations.
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