Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) won by a landslide in Sunday's House of Representatives election as it solo secured 294 seats in the election.
Chinese authorities vowed Sunday to focus on quality and efficiency of economic growth in 2013, demonstrating their determination to ensure sustainable and healthy economic development after the previous pursuit of fast-track growth.
Cheap and functional counterfeit phones that closely resemble the high-end phones they are modeled after are slowly being replaced by both international and domestic companies looking to break off a piece of the budget phone market.
A cold front will sweep China's central and eastern regions over the next three days, bringing lower temperatures and strong winds, the country's meteorological authorities forecast Sunday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he won't nominate Susan Rice, the current American ambassador to the United Nations, as his next secretary of state.
Upon his return from Stockholm after being awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, Chinese writer Mo Yan on Friday said he does not consider himself to be a "literary master."
China's Nobel literature winner Mo Yan on Thursday called for more attention on Chinese literature from readers around the world, and said he would produce more quality works in the future.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor said here Wednesday the comprehensive cooperative relationship between China and Australia had made fresh progress.
The recovery of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will be "complex and difficult" following a fourth round of cancer surgery, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.
More than 270 wildlife species endemic to the Philippines have been found for the past 25 years, a senior official said Thursday.
A series of deadly blasts rattled Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday after the United States and its allies recognized the exiled Syrian opposition as the sole " legitimate representative" of Syrian people.
A woman in her 50s died Friday in the back of an ambulance during Beijing's afternoon rush hour, as barely any cars made way for the ambulance. The tragedy has triggered a wave of heated debate and soul-searching on the Internet.
China may almost double its upper limit for solar power installed capacity to 40 gigawatts (GW) by 2015 from the current 21 GW, an industry insider said.
As China seeks to shake off its image of the world's mass-producer of cheap products and move up the value chain, Chinese companies are trying to reshape their reputations in the international market to win acceptance.
Greece's lenders were "close to an agreement," but would meet again Monday to decide on the release of desperately needed bail-out funds, the Eurogroup chief said early Wednesday.
Theme park to be built near site of Old Summer Palace
Israel's intensified bombardment on the Gaza Strip and a threat of ground assault have met with strong objections from the international community, including the West.