U.S. stocks opened lower Monday following a downgrade of Japan's debt rating and tepid sales figures of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday accepted Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi's resignation filed early Monday at Abe's official residence, Japan's Kyodo News reported.
The peaceful conducting of the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on Sunday shows that all parties and voters in the countries are trying to overcome the political crisis starting early 2013.
Cambodia on Monday launched a five-year policy and action plan for early childhood care and development with an aim to increase enrollment and enhance protection for children aged less than six years old.
China produced 34.01 million tonnes of early rice in 2014, a decrease of 125,000 tonnes, or 0.4 percent, from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday in a statement.
China hopes the Central African Republic will have new interim leaders at an early date, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday.
A powerful blast hit a security building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura early Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 85 others, semi-official Ahramonline reported.
The fifth regular meeting of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Committee (ECC) opened Tuesday morning in Taipei.
South Korea planned to buy four Global Hawks, the unmanned spy drone, from the United States to beef up its defense capabilities against possible missile and nuclear threats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
Extremist Islamist groups assassinated early Wednesday a leader of one of the renowned tribes in Arish city of Egypt's North Sinai governorate, a security source told Xinhua.
A Turkish high-ranking official from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Saturday denied that the government is planning to hold early elections.
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