Politicians, lawyers and the public in Algeria have showed divergent views on the issue of the restoration of death penalty, exclusively against child kidnappers.
In Mongolia over the weekend, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's effort to promote China's stance on the South China Sea issue received broad support during the 11th Asian-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit.
More countries have voiced their support for China's position on the South China Sea issue "despite pressure," a spokesperson for Chinese Foreign Ministry said here on Monday.
Despite Beijing's repeated call that outsider countries play a constructive role on the South China Sea issue, Tokyo seems to have stepped up its meddling moves, at the cost of regional stability and without giving any thought to its relations with China.
Japanese government's poor efforts to resolve "comfort women" issue will become a "boomerang" to its political position in the Asia Pacific region, an Indonesian expert told Xinhua in a recent interview.
China always insists direct and peaceful negotiation with relevant countries to resolve the South China Sea issue, Chinese experts said on Friday at the Japan's National Press Club.
Relatives of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s are concerned the issue will receive little attention during campaigning for the July 10 upper house election, with economic and social security issues largely in focus.
India on Thursday hit out at Pakistan, asking it to vacate the parts of Jammu and Kashmir which it has illegally occupied and to not needlessly internationalise the issue.
Pakistan has seriously taken up drone strike issue with the United States, according to Pakistan foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz.
Fifteen associations of history scholars and educators in Japan issued a joint statement here on Monday, demanding the related parties sincerely face the "comfort women" issue so as to fundamentally solve this problem.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Sunday said the Islamic states should unite in the fight against terrorism, the state-run Petra news agency reported.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) highlighted on Monday that the issue of "comfort women" remains unsettled despite recent Japanese claims to the contrary.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the South China Sea situation and other hot-spot affairs during a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday.
A deal struck between Japan and South Korea purporting to finally end a long-standing rift between the two countries over the "comfort women" issue was lambasted Tuesday by two former Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels.
Activists fighting for rights of"comfort women"rallied Wednesday around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence demanding that the government properly handle the historical issue, rather than using money to made a deal over the country's wartime wrongdoing.
Recently, with the second round of hearings by the Arbitral Tribunal in The Hague on a case unilaterally initiated by the Philippines, the South China Sea issue once again became the focus of the media. Some criticisms are well-presented opinions and some are, frankly speaking, biased.
Debate over a new national flag and a threat to poison baby formula with 1080 were the country's two toughest PR challenges for the year, according to a new ranking released today by BlacklandPR.