Myanmar government and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are planning to collect the data on child labor as part of a four-year plan for elimination of child labor in the country, according to Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security Wednesday.
Injuries of the jet cruiser crash rose to 70 on Friday in Macao, according to statistics released by the region's health authorities.
Afghan conflict and militancy have claimed the lives of nine people including a service member of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Thursday.
A tanker exploded and caught fire on the sea near Himeji city in Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan Thursday morning, leaving one man missing and four others injured, local press reported.
A suicide bomber targeted a bus of Afghan national army personnel in capital city Kabul on Monday, killing at least four people including the attacker and wounding four others, an army officer at the site of the blast said.
Tetramine, a banned neurotoxic rodenticide, caused the food poisoning that killed two children at a kindergarten in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said on Thursday.
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) concluded here Saturday on a note of cautious optimism about the world economy.
China has cut three out of four widely watched Spring Festival galas sponsored by ministries and state media, as the ruling party has stepped up efforts to cut pomp and fight corruption.
China has cut three out of four widely watched Spring Festival galas sponsored by ministries and state media, as the ruling party has stepped up efforts to cut pomp and fight corruption.
At least two staffers and four suicide bombers were killed Monday in an attack against the office of Iraq's Salahudin satellite channel and the nearby Iraqia official television's office in the northern Salahudin province, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
Officials confirmed Tuesday four patients in the U.S. state of Texas have died of a mysterious flu- like illness, local media reported. A total of eight confirmed patients, ranging in age from 41 to 68, were admitted to hospital with flu symptoms in Montgomery County, but tests for influenza were negative, the website of the Houston Chronicle reported.
South Korea planned to buy four Global Hawks, the unmanned spy drone, from the United States to beef up its defense capabilities against possible missile and nuclear threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
Turkish troops repelled four armed men on the border with Syria as they tried to enter Turkey illegally to smuggle goods, a military statement said Thursday.
Egypt's prosecutor general Hesham Barakat ordered Tuesday four police officers to be remanded in custody over charges of killing 36 members of Muslim Brotherhood last August, state TV reported.
The High Court in the Indian capital Monday issued warrants for production of four adult convicts in the Delhi gangrape case, who were sentenced to death just days back by a fast-track court.
The Australian National University (ANU) is ranked 27th in the world globally, and No. 1 in Australia, the university quoted Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2013/2014 which was released Tuesday morning as saying.
At least seven Afghans were killed and 58 were wounded when Taliban's suicide bombings and ensuing gunfight hit a NATO base in eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday, officials said.
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