It's only two months into 2017, but K-pop fans have been showered with superfluous releases from big time artists -- AOA, S.E.S and Suzy just to name a few -- so far this year.
Myanmar will investigate allegations contained in a recent report of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said Myanmar Foreign Ministry in a press release Thursday.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just approved a proposal on conditional release of prisoners ahead of time, following which some 20,000 prisoners will enjoy early release by 2018.
Congress has released previously classified documents about whether the Saudi government had a role in the 9/11 attacks.
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The Indian government has said it was examining a letter sent by local government of Tamil Nadu regarding the release of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassins from jail.
Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested Diego Dzodan, Facebook's vice-president for Latin America, for not complying with previous judicial decisions.
A judge Tuesday ruled New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser had acted unlawfully in refusing to release documents regarding the controversial 12-nation Trans- Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP/TPPA).
A member of the press corps of Ghana' s Presidency lost his life Thursday after the vehicle they were traveling skidded off road, a release from the presidency said.
South African Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Michael Masutha on Wednesday suspended the decision of the Parole Board to release paralympian Oscar Pistorius on parole.
Convicted Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard, is due to be released November 20, after 30 years in jail, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has again urged continued disaster relief work in Tibet Autonomous Region where nearly 300,000 people were affected in a devastating earthquake in Nepal on April 25.
It was February 24 when local media first reported about the kidnapping of 31 passengers by unknown armed people on the Kandahar-Kabul highway and since then the Afghanistan government has yet to find a single clue about the abductors, and the abductees' fate remains unknown.
"My father was abducted by militants, it has been more than two months since I've seen or talked with him," Zahra, 8, told Xinhua.
A Japanese fishing industry group on Tuesday called on the Abe administration not to allow the release of radioactive water from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant into the sea, the Jiji press reported Tuesday.
Sony Picture Entertainment released the controversial film "The Interview" online Wednesday, in advance of a limited theatrical screening on Christmas Day.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Saturday welcomed the release of two U.S. nationals by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), voicing his hope that "the positive momentum for improving relations among the concerned parties" will be built on.