Singapore has been listed as the world's priciest city for the second year regarding the relocation costs for expatriate, Channel NewsAsia reported on Tuesday, citing a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
At least two Indian Army personnel have been killed and another missing in an avalanche in the northern state of Uttarakhand, a senior police official said Tuesday.
One person went missing, and at least 20 others were injured after a blast occurred in a road tunnel under construction in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday afternoon.
At first glance, the U.S. jobless rate appears to be improving, as unemployment figures are trending downward and the economy continues to add jobs. But a deeper look unveils some troubling truths.
Companies in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone may now borrow overseas without prior consent from authorities, the Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China said on Thursday.
At least three people were killed, 10 injured and six missing in an explosion at a platform of Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras in the southeast of the country, the company said on Wednesday.
The public have been invited to participate in this year's government work report, which the central government put online on Jan. 22.
Northern Territory (NT) Chief Minister Adam Giles is back in charge of his government on Wednesday a day after a coup leader declared he had been deposed.
Around 1,600 workers at the WANEK Woodcraft Co., Ltd. in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province had been given free rubella vaccines following an outbreak of the disease at the company that started early this month, local Vietnam News daily reported Thursday.
The espionage charges against Russian citizens demonstrated another round of anti-Moscow campaign by the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday voiced concern over an upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine, calling for a "full and prompt" implementation of ceasefire deals.
Indonesian divers have retrieved the flight data recorder of the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 in the Java Sea, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency said on Monday.
A total of 680 fugitives suspected of economic crimes have been repatriated to China as a result of the transnational "Fox Hunt" operation launched in July, the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
Recovery teams found two more bodies and located two large metal objects in the sea bed as they expanded search area for the ill-fated AirAsia flight on Tuesday.
At least 12 people have been rescued after a five-storied building collapsed in the northeast of Nairobi, the Kenya capital, on Sunday night.
The bodies of eight Australian children aged from two and 14 years will be laid to rest at a joint funeral next month, it was reported on Tuesday.
Two persons were injured as an explosion took place in church street area of Bangalore city in South India on Sunday evening, local media reported.