China has been pushing the reverse mortgage-style house-for-pension program to diversify its eldercare solutions for a quickly aging population. The four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan will start a pilot to allow insurers to access this field on July 1.
Fears could be passed down from mothers to newborn babies through the odor the mothers give off when they feel fear, a new U.S. study said Monday.
Fresh fighting between military and a group of breakaway Muslim rebels erupted on Monday in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, leaving two rebels dead and 13 others wounded, the military said.
Some 43.3 percent of Chinese netizens commenting on the country's latest food safety scandal direct their anger toward poor supervision, said a report in Wednesday's China Youth Daily.
When Pakistan launched its long- awaited major military offensive against the local Taliban and other foreign jihadists in their main sanctuary in North Waziristan last month, the army formally requested the Afghan security forces to boost border security to stop fleeing militants from crossing the border.
South Korean Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan and Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Ju-yeol agreed Monday to cooperate in supporting their country's economy, reports from Yonhap said.
The swearing-in ceremony of President Bashar al-Assad was held Wednesday and followed by an inauguration speech, in which Assad outlined the features of his third seven-year-term in office, basically continuing to fight terrorism, support national reconciliation and embark on reconstruction process.
The familiar argument predicting a collapse of BRICS countries by the West has sadly failed to grasp the essence of the dynamic grouping from the emerging world.
Graduates with higher degrees in China are feeling the pinch in the job market as competitors with lower education levels rise on par and catch up as magnets for employers.
China's press authority has issued rules to tighten management on information including state secrets received by journalists during their work.
As expected the eurosceptic group Europe of Freedom & Direct Democracy (EFDD) failed on Monday to win the chairmanship of the petitions committee of the European Parliament (EP).
July 7 is an anniversary that should be remembered by both Chinese and Japanese.Seventy-seven years ago, at Lugou Bridge, known as Marco Polo Bridge to the Western people, Japanese troops attacked Chinese defenders in the nearby fortress town of Wanping, marking the beginning of the eight-year Anti-Japanese War.
The first teams of U.S. military advisers have begun their mission in Baghdad and more troops are on their way, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
China will pilot a much-debated house-for-pension eldercare program in four cities next month as the country seeks an alternative to cope with rising pressures from an aging population, according to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC).
A draft revision to China's Food Safety Law had its first reading on Monday and pledges tough sanctions for offenders, promising the strictest food safety supervision system.
Sansha City, China's youngest city in Hainan Province, started to build its first school on Saturday.
It was not to be the dream start Japan's Samurai Blue had been hoping for in the decisive opening game of their World Cup campaign that saw them fall to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Cote d'Ivoire Sunday local time.
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