People here said they had known that a network of fault lines ran under their town like veins. But no major earthquake had struck in anyone’s lifetime. Even in Japan, the most seismically unstable country in the world, that fact had apparently created a false sense of security.
What kind of ship never sinks? Friendship! While this joke has always been popular, it has never been able to show how the ship sinks. Until now, that is. A recent set of cartoons reveals the whole story with the help of cute penguins.
China's relatively slow economy has not cast a shadow on the employment prospects of college and university graduates, according to a new report from a leading recruitment company.
The Pentagon said Thursday the footprint of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan had been "significantly decreased," but warned that the extremist group still had the potential to be an "enormous threat."
The State Council has announced that 357 officials implicated in cases concerning the illegal sale of improperly stored vaccines would be penalized.
Left-behind children are the consequence of poverty. For lack of employment opportunities in local areas, men, the family bread winner, can’t earn enough money to maintain the children, so they have to migrate to eastern or southeastern parts of China where they can find a relatively well-paid job in different kinds of factories.
A painting found in the attic of a house in southwest France two years ago was attributed to the Italian master Caravaggio by private French experts who hailed its discovery on Tuesday as a great event in the history of art.
Government launches plan to shock repeat traffic offenders into changing their behaviour by confronting them with dead bodies
After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised US$89,000, the makers of a documentary about the city’s domestic helpers have completed the first phase of their work – but much remains to be done to ready it for submission to the Toronto film festival in June
Hong Kong's singletons grappling with fast-and-furious approach to dating
To cope with increasing pressure from a graying population, the Chinese government is setting a timetable for postponing the retirement age, while many local civil servants are experimenting with a different path.
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Thursday urged overseas Britons to use consular services for genuine emergencies rather than "bizarre requests."
In an effort to break the two-month deadlock over funding to fight the encroaching Zika virus, Obama administration officials announced on Wednesday that, as congressional Republicans had demanded, they would transfer $510 million originally intended to protect against Ebola to the Zika battle.
Has China fallen into an unorthodox liquidity trap? On paper, it’s inconceivable to think this way with a variety of monetary instruments on the table for the PBOC, especially with an interest rate way above zero. But in reality, China has always been facing with the same paradox – an over-levered corporate sector together with an under-levered household sector.
Ten Indonesian crewmen were reportedly kidnapped by terrorist group Abu Sayyaf off Tawi-tawi in southern Philippines, military sources said on Monday.
Counter-terror measures were at the maximum level in the Italian capital since Friday, as tens of thousands of people flocked to the city for the Easter festivities.
Top UN officials on Thursday welcomed a guilty verdict handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, calling the judgement is "historic" for the people of the region and beyond.
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