China had used 86.369 billion U.S. dollars in loans from international financial institutions by the end of last year, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
The number of Cambodian migrant workers, who have been deported from or fled Thailand over fears of a junta-led clampdown on illegal foreign workers, rose to 220, 000 on Wednesday.
Fifty people in central China's Hunan Province have been indicted for their roles in an electoral fraud, the provincial procuratorate said on Monday.
Morning and night markets in Urumqi, capital city of far west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, have been shut down because of the threat of terrorism, local authorities announced on Monday.
Outdated water ducts have been blamed for contamination of tap water that affected 2.4 million people in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou in April, local authorities announced Thursday.
Thailand's anti-coup activist Sombat Boonngamanong has been formally charged with inciting unrest, violating the Computer Crime Act and defying the order of the military junta, Pol Col Prasopchoke Prommun said Thursday.
Police in two northern Chinese regions Tuesday said they have arrested some 1,500 cult members over the past two years.
The fire at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing Monday had reignited hours after it was put out. But no casualties have been reported so far.
A building in Chandigarh City of north India collapsed after it caught fire late evening on Sunday, and three firemen were trapped under debris, local media reported.
A major corruption scandal involving more than 100 suspects related to a project to block tidal flows in water city Venice has triggered angry reactions in the Italian society and prompted Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to pledge swift action on graft.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to have a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in France to discuss the Ukraine situation, a Downing Street spokesperson said Monday.
Zhang Zheying, deputy chief engineer of Metallurgical Corporation of China Limited, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and public office for "serious disciplinary and legal violations."
A forest fire that has raged in east China's Shandong Province since Thursday afternoon was contained on Friday morning. No casualties were reported and hundreds of locals have been evacuated to emergency shelters nearby.
The priority of Thailand's military- run National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is to ensure national administration functions as normal and key policies can be implemented, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Former pro-government protest leaders were released on Wednesday after a seven-day detention at undisclosed army barracks.
Japan's nuclear regulator on Monday provisionally approved a plan to construct an underground frozen wall at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to help deal with the rapid buildup of contaminated water at the site.
Huang Baodong, a senior executive of a state-owned power-related corporation, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and public office for "serious disciplinary and legal violations."
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