The kidnapping and brutal beheading of seven civilians including two women and a child by anti-government militants allegedly Deash fighters in the southern Zabul province on Saturday have provoked thousands of Afghans including women to assemble in Kabul on Wednesday to demand justice.
Tmall, Alibaba's international retail platform, introduced insurance to guarantee the authenticity and quality of its products on Thursday, in the run-up to the yearly Singles' Day shopping spree on Nov. 11.
Innovation will be put at core position for China's development in the five years from 2016, according to a communique released on Thursday following a four-day meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department conducted on Tuesday an exercise to review its preparedness for an avian flu outbreak.
Supermarket chains NTUC FairPrice, Sheng Siong and Prime Supermarket have pulled all Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) items off their shelves, including popular brands such as Paseo.
The China-ASEAN Information Harbor Forum kicked off in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Sunday to discuss cooperation between China and Southeast Asia in the Internet and technology industries.
The death toll from the Tianjin warehouse explosions more than two weeks ago rose to 150 on Sunday with 23 others still missing, according to rescue authorities.
The death toll from a warehouse blast in north China's Tianjin Municipality has risen to 123, including 70 firefighters and seven policemen, authorities said at a press conference on Sunday.
A man who left a backpack at the scene of Monday's deadly bombing in central Bangkok is now the focus of the hunt for the bomber, said police.
Singapore celebrated its Golden Jubilee on Sunday with the biggest-ever National Day Parade (NDP), which commemorated the city state's independence.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Tuesday prosecuting agencies across China probed 24,187 people in the first five months of 2015 in duty-related cases, including 1,891 officials at the county level or higher, an 18.6-percent rise from the same period last year.
Egypt's cabinet said in a statement on Wednesday that it is constantly convened due to the mounting terrorist activities, voicing full support for all security measures to combat terrorism in the country.
French high-level officials, including French president Francois Hollande, ex-presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, and French cabinet ministers, were surveilled by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States, said Tuesday a press release of WikiLeaks.
China continues to be an important contributor to U.S. economic growth, said the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) in its annual report on U.S. exports to China on Tuesday.
The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has climbed to 4,264 people, including 20 mountaineers, and more than 7,000 others were injured, said the National Emergency Operation Center of Nepal's Home Ministry on Tuesday morning.
After more than seven months at sea, covering more than 110,000 nautical miles, a Chinese fleet wrapped up its escort mission on Thursday.
A national innovation zone opened in the Binhai New Area industrial park in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Thursday.
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