Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Thursday that his landmark 1995 apology for the nation's wartime atrocities and the 1993 Kono statement admitting culpability and apologizing for Japan's forcible wartime conscription of sex slaves should not be re-examined.
Egypt confirmed Sunday 38 death cases of A/H1N1 virus, known as swine flu, since the beginning of last December, the Egyptian Health Ministry said in a statement.
A total of 17,760 fires broke out during China's Spring Festival holiday, leaving 43 people dead and 17 injured, the fire department of the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called on Egyptians to renew their commitment to peaceful dialogue and non-violence based on pluralism, on which a stable and inclusive democracy can be built.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has underscored Myanmar's economic reform efforts, forecasting an economic growth to 7.5 percent in the fiscal year 2013-14 and near 7.8 percent in 2014-15, state media reported Thursday, quoting a statement of the IMF Review Team.
Egypt's National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, a pro-ousted president Mohamed Morsi coalition, called for 18 days of protests as of Friday to mark the fourth anniversary of the January 25 uprising that removed president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Two new cases of human H7N9 were reported Thursday in south China's Guangdong Province, and another avian flu patient died
The Chinese government on Wednesday vowed to further streamline administrative approvals and delegate power to lower levels. The government will take more measures to deepen reforms on administrative approvals, according to a statement issued after an executive meeting of the State Council, the country's Cabinet.
Tong Mingqian, a senior political advisor in central China's Hunan Province, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and removed from public office for dereliction of duty which caused major electoral fraud, according to a statement released by the CPC's discipline watchdog Thursday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Sunday strongly condemned the suicide bombing at a railway station in southern Russia, calling it a "terrorist" act.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that he was "appalled" by the ongoing inter-communal conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), calling on the authorities to "rein in those fomenting and perpetrating the violence."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said Thursday that he was "deeply concerned about continued reports of growing violence in many parts of South Sudan, human rights abuses and killings fueled by ethnic tensions."
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is leading a delegation to attend the two-day 10th annual Malaysia-Indonesia leaders' consultation in Jakarta from Wednesday, according to official statement.
Experts say "human-centered" urbanization, a topic raised at a recently concluded conference of China's leaders, may help bring a breath of fresh air to the smog-smothered nation.
The UN Security Council on Monday condemned the Sunday shooting on the Israeli-Lebanese border, and called for "calm and continued restraint by all parties" after the incident.
China will push forward with public housing schemes such as low-rent and public rental homes as well as shantytown renovation
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon and the UN Security Council on Saturday strongly condemned a deadly attack in Mali, which killed two Senegalese peacekeepers and injured at least seven others and four Malian troops.
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