China will safeguard national food security and continue to pursue the sustainable development of agriculture
China on Saturday pledged proactive yet steady moves in pushing forward human-centered urbanization as it looks to balance urban-rural development and unleash domestic demand.
A French hostage kidnapped on Dec. 20, 2012 in Nigeria was released, the French president's office Elysee said on Sunday.
China's biggest provider of information and communication technology (ICT) Huawei said here on Wednesday it has been awarded the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award 2013 in the service category.
Security forces captured a Taliban commander in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar province on Sunday, a statement of National Directorate for Security (NDS), or the country's national spy agency, said.
The second batch of inspectors which were divided into 10 groups have started inspections in designated organs, according to a statement publicized Sunday on the website of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
A latest research statement from Australian national science body, CSIRO, has confirmed on Thursday that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus which killed hundreds people originated in horseshoe bats from China, according to a statement released Thursday.
International chemical weapon inspectors have completed verification activities at 21 of Syria's 23 declared chemical weapon sites, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement Monday.
The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will be held between Nov. 9 and 12 in Beijing, according to a CPC Central Committee Political Bureau statement on Tuesday.
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.
The Kenyan government on Tuesday denied reports that it was lobbying African countries to boycott the 23rd Commonwealth Head of State Summit to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from Nov. 15 to 17.
Japan for the first time has thrown its weight behind a UN statement on nuclear disarmament with senior government officials stating Tuesday that the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons use are unacceptable.
Turkish fighter jets Thursday repelled a Syrian warplane and military helicopter after officials spotted the aircraft approaching the border, the Turkish military said in a statement.
Six major business and industrial associations in Taiwan on Tuesday issued a joint statement that urged the island's politicians to cease the current political strife and restore the development of Taiwan's economy.
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez will undergo surgery Tuesday at Buenos Aires' Fundacion Favaloro Hospital, after doctors found a brain hematoma, said a statement issued by the hospital on Monday.
As many as 29 civilians and policemen were killed over the past three days during the anti- government protests over fuel subsidy cuts in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and Gezira State, the Sudanese police said Thursday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Kabul for Bishkek on Thursday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kyrgyzstan, said a statement issued here by Arg, the Afghan Presidential Palace.