As the world commemorates the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation on Wednesday, the practice has gone underground in Uganda following the enactment of a stringent law.
Four Chinese bus drivers charged for their roles in a rare strike in Singapore have been asked to decide whether to plead guilty or claim trial by next week.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and his successor Park Geun-hye met Tuesday with Myanmar's opposition leader and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi.
A judicial interpretation that went into effect on Wednesday aims to defend migrant workers by preventing their employers from defaulting on their wages.
Chinese celebrities are now exerting their influence in more ways, including Hong Kong comedy king, Stephen Chow...He has just been elected to the political consultative body of China's southern province of Guangdong, with two other Hong Kong celebrities.
Dozens of families of the victims voiced anger on Sunday, after realizing authorities' had already cremated all the bodies without their consent in the landslide disaster of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Now the government has said sorry.
Beijing residents have been stunned by a news report revealing a couple working in the public health department haven't drunk tap water for twenty years, calling into question the safety of their drinking water.
The Great Fiji Shark Count will work with the Fijian Ministry of Fisheries to ascertain how 50 baby hammerhead sharks were found dead along the Nukulau beachfront over the weekend, local media reported Monday.
A policy that requires users to use their real names when registering for Internet access has triggered heated discussion, with some for and some against it.
China's urban population now outnumbers its rural for the first time - a major change, in the country's social structure.But China still has a long way to go to become truly city-based, with many side-effects from the rapid urbanization.
China's Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers' children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally.
The Food and Health Bureau in Hong Kong has reiterated that according to the zero quota policy promulgated earlier, all public hospitals will not accept any bookings by pregnant non-local women for delivery in Hong Kong from Jan. 1 onwards.
Eight out of 23 children wounded in a knife attack in central China's Henan Province have been transferred to hospitals in neighboring Hubei Province to receive better treatment, doctors said Tuesday.
The city's Public Security Bureau said foreigners with permanent residency in China now share the same rights and responsibilities as Chinese nationals.
Indonesian Labor Minister Muhaimin Iskandar on Tuesday urged laborers to avoid violence and convey their aspiration peacefully as the ministry has strived to comply with their demands.
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