Fresh air has become a luxury for many Chinese.
Japan's Hokkaido prefecture began culling on Saturday some 210,000 chicken at a poultry farm where highly pathogenic bird flu strain had been detected.
South Korea's agriculture ministry raised the country's bird flu alert status to the highest level for the first time on Thursday as the disease has spread quickly nationwide.
Twelve people were arrested on Monday evening at a cinema in India, after they remained seated while the national anthem played.
Civilians and rebel fighters were to start evacuating from Syria's Aleppo "within hours" under a deal reached Tuesday that would end years of opposition resistance in the city.
The Australian government remains committed to the contentious Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program despite criticism from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the nation's Defence Industries Minister Christopher Pyne said on Tuesday.
Officials and scholars from different parts of the world have lauded the constructive and leading role China has played in the World Trade Organization (WTO) since its accession to the global trade organization 15 years ago.
The French capital Paris implemented licence plate-based driving restrictions for a third day in a row yesterday and is planning bans on old cars as the City of Light experienced the worst air pollution in a decade.
Syria's army and allies pushed into rebel-held parts of Aleppo's Old City on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five-year-old civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold.
With an announcement some 10 days away, a thick cloud of uncertainty hangs over South Korea's selection of new duty-free shop operators due to a litany of variables, industry sources said Tuesday.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned on Monday that the openness of the world economy is endangered by growing frustration among many voters who are angry about a "lost decade" for their earnings.
Thirty-two people have been confirmed dead following an explosion at a coal mine in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday.
A 35-year-old Japanese woman has been allegedly raped by a man in the southern Indian state of Kerala's coastal town of Kovalam, a senior police official said Sunday.
Police have confirmed that several people died when a small boat got into trouble in the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, Saturday.
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The mosquito-borne Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared.
Relatives of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are to travel to Madagascar to search for debris that might provide clues to the plane's fate.
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