Companies in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone may now borrow overseas without prior consent from authorities, the Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.
Improving performances in both traditional made-in-Italy industries and niche sectors are expected to continue in 2015, local experts said, adding they would create more space for potential foreign investments.
Kansai Airport, the international hub in western Japan, has tightened security after the Islamic State ( IS) militant group killed its second Japanese hostage and announced the Japanese people as targets of terrorism, local media reported on Monday.
Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime.
The Japanese government on Thursday has desperately being looking into all and every possible channels available to it in a bid to negotiate with Islamic State (IS) militants on the release of two Japanese nationals being held to ransom, before a 72-hour deadline imposed by the group expires.
Cyber-attacks, which are mostly intended for economic gains, have become an "emerging industry," said an Austrian report released Thursday.
Sri Lanka's newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena swore in a 27-member cabinet along with nine deputy ministers here on Monday.
Police in the Pakistani capital have devised a strategy to improve security for schools following a Taliban attack on an army-run school that killed 141 people, nearly all children, officials said Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Macao on Friday noon for celebrations marking the 15th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland.
Students at Chinese universities may soon be receiving unconventional career advice from their counselors as the government encourages those with the entrepreneurial spirit to drop out if they see a golden business opportunity.
Chinese media coverage of a much-anticipated report released by the United States Senate, on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) torture of terrorists suspects after the Sept. 11 attacks, gripped the nation on Wednesday.
Turkish government faces stern challenges to address the worsening corruption problem in the country as the world marks the International anti-corruption Day on Monday.
The exhibition "Love is Enough" which opened on Saturday at Modern Art Oxford juxtaposes two giants of 19th and 20th century art who at first sight would seem to come from quite different worlds.
Two explosions followed by gun fires shocked the diplomat enclave of Wazir Akbar Khan area in Kabul city Thursday night, police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said.
Leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation met in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to discuss ways to promote integration as the organization pushes towards one community by 2030.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday confirmed that American hostage Peter Kassig had been killed by Islamic State (IS) militants.
Leaders from Southeast Asian nations have confirmed their determination to unveil respective national targets for mitigation efforts "well in advance of" a key global climate change meeting scheduled for December next year, according to a joint statement adopted at a regional summit here.
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