Singapore's National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that the government has been ramping up the supply of public housing flats since 2011, but this could slow down after 2015 to prevent a glut in the market.
Huang Mingzhen goes home once every three weeks, only to see the sullen, expressionless face of his 13-year-old son Huang Bo. Like Huang, many abducted children find it hard to be forcibly separated from their foster parents and integrate with their biological family. With Children's Day just around the corner, the well-being of these returned children has garnered widespread attention. Moreoever, around half of abducted children came from rural families, who often cannot afford to provide psychological counselling to these children undergone such a traumatic experience.
From Qingdao, a coastal city in northeast China's Shangdong province, the 48-year-old Guo Chuan sailed across the Pacific Ocean and down to Cape Horn, completing a 40,000-kilometer journey that took him through the most dangerous waters on the planet and made him the first Chinese to traverse the Atlantic Ocean. Guo told his story of how he felt in love with sailing and how he overcame numerous difficulties to realizing his sailing dream.
The relationship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable, and the two neighbors are intent on deepening their strategic cooperation, visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Wednesday.
Russia is waiting for a response from U.S. President Barack Obama over the letter his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has sent, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
With her abusive father detained after local police came to her rescue, 10-year-old Yang Xian finally has a sense of security. After being transferred from a rural health center to a city hospital, the tiny child surprised doctors with the amount of physical trauma she has endured.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday testified in the House of Representatives over the Justice Department's decision to subpoena journalists' phone records in connection with a leak investigation, and he denied knowledge of the controversy.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday distanced himself from the Justice Department's decision to secretly seize two months of phone records of Associated Press journalists and editors.
The United State and China should work together to eliminate barriers that hinder trade and deepen cooperation by enhancing understanding with each other, a U.S. official said on Friday in Hong Kong.
As Australia’s richest man of metals, Andrew Forrest, all but single-handedly carved his fortune all the way up from the Pilbara red dirt, building an iron ore empire through relentless fight.
Candidates for Iran's 11th presidential election, slated for June 14, began to register on Tuesday. Iranians, who obtain the requirements stipulated in Iran' s Constitution, will be able to sign up for the race until May 11 at the country's Interior Ministry.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his handling of the ongoing conflict in Syria, saying he will not make decisions about deeper involvement based on what he called "perceived" crossing of a red line he has set.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said he would go to the Supreme Court Thursday to contest the results of last month's presidential race.
Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr believes the relationship between Australia and South Korea is still strong and unlikely to be affected by spy claims, local media reported on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday repeated a call for recognition of the massacre of 1 million to 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Road for forming the new government was finally opened on Wednesday after Enrico Letta, a center-left politician named by President Giorgio Napolitano as the new Italian prime minister, said he will get started immediately to overcome impasse.
The dramatic expansion in shipyard capacity is making it difficult for the overcapacity across the shipping industry to be absorbed any time soon, ship owners and industry veterans said.
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