South Korea on Monday warned of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s readiness for its fifth nuclear test amid worries about increased activity in its main nuclear test site.
Four people have been confirmed dead, with 10 more wounded, in a collapse accident at a subway construction site in South Korea, Yonhap news agency and local broadcaster YTN on Wednesday.
Land prices in mainland Chinese cities continue to soar despite efforts by some city governments to cool down the market.
The December 2017 deadline set by the Hong Kong government for the completion of their portion of the Hong Kong –Zhuhai-Macau Bridge looks increasingly unrealistic, according to a report from Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP).
Aerial photos taken on Jan. 14, 2016 show the explosion site in Tongxu County of Kaifeng City, central China's Henan Province. The firework plant exploded at around 10:48 am on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injured 7.
An exclusion zone is in place after a 26-carriage freight train carrying some 200,000 litres (44,000 gallons) of sulphuric acid derailed in Australia.
A total of 91 people went missing by 6 a.m.on Dec.21, after a landslide buried 33 buildings in an industrial park in Shenzhen city of south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, according to local authorities.
Revenue from ticket sales to foreigners visiting Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat Temple reached 53. 5 million U.S. dollars in the first 11 months of 2015, up 1.15 percent year-on-year, according to an official release on Tuesday.
Cambodia on Friday released a TV spot to promote the"code of conduct" for tourists visiting the famed Angkor Wat Temple in northwestern Siem Reap province.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Palestinian incitement is responsible for the recent bout of violence in Jerusalem's flashpoint Temple Mount site.
Rescue authorities updated the death toll from the Tianjin warehouse explosions to 129, with 44 others missing, on Monday.
Hackers claiming to have stolen data from AshleyMadison.com, a website that facilitates hook-ups between would-be adulterers, have allegedly released information of more than 36 million user accounts.
A wake of destruction -- shards of glass, bloodstains and motorbikes scattered on the ground -- greeted Xinhua reporters at the site of a loud blast that rocked downtown Bangkok Monday night.
A total of 112 bodies have been found, and 95 people remain missing, including 85 firefighters, after Wednesday night's warehouse explosions rocked north China's Tianjin city, officials said at a press conference on Sunday.
A team of 217 military specialists in nuclear and biochemical materials has arrived in the northern city of Tianjin following explosions at a warehouse on Wednesday.
Huge explosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds and sent massive fireballs into the night sky, officials and eyewitnesses said on Thursday.
Israeli forces on Sunday stormed in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa compound after dozens of Palestinians hurled stones and firecrackers at police officers, Israeli officials said.
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