Xinhua reporters traveled into mountains with a sasquatch researcher Bill Miller, who has been looking for Big Foot, a large hairy monsters that was believed to live in the woods about 150 km east of the Canadian city of Vancouver, since the 1990s.
Six people in the quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan were dead as torrential rain continued storming the region since late Monday, said local authorities on Tuesday, with weather agency warning of the risk on landslides and swollen rivers in the following days.
A U.S. Navy officer was arrested on Sunday for drunk driving in Japanese southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa.
China’s economy still faces downside pressure in the second half year. With the continuous introduction of proactive fiscal policies, the economy is likely to bottom out. Industry insiders indicated that the macroeconomic adjustment will transfer to “ease fiscal policy plus stable monetary policy”.
At least six Afghan civilians were shot dead by armed men along a highway after militants intercepted three vehicles in the country's northern province of Kunduz on Tuesday, a local police said.
Groups of residents from remote mountainous areas in Japan and Taiwan planned to work together on projects to lure tourists by promoting local ghost stories, those involved on the Japanese side said.
As the data on local government debt in 2015 have been gradually disclosed, journalist of the 21st Century Business Herald outlines the sketch of local government debt for 2015 according to the data set out in bond issuance documents and rating reports published by local governments.
At least 11 people died in a landslide in a remote jade mining region of northern Myanmar with many more feared missing, authorities said Tuesday (May 24), in the latest deadly incident to hit the shadowy industry.
Five people were killed, one went missing and five others sustained serious injury after flash floods and landslides hit West Java province in western Indonesia on Sunday night, a local disaster agency top official said on Monday.
Residents demonstrate in Zhengzhou over education ministry’s demand that more than a dozen provinces admit a greater number of non-local college students
Hong Kong ultrarunner Pavel Toropov explores a high-altitude gorge near the China-Myanmar border. Home to some of China’s last primary forests, it is earmarked for mass tourism; enjoy it while you can
More than 54 million Filipinos began casting their votes in polling centers across the country on Monday to pick a new president.
Myanmar has chronic problems to boost the country's export to cure the country's huge trade deficit, experts said.
Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry said Saturday that according to municipal reports more than 12,000 private residences and other buildings were considered to be "dangerous" and at risk of collapsing in regions reeling after powerful quakes battered southwest Japan earlier this month.
Two people were killed and 34 others wounded as local residents clashed in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province on Sunday, an official of the local disaster agency said on Sunday.
An television crew will fight charges of kidnapping over their involvement in the allegedly botched abduction and recovery of an Australian mother's children, local media reported Wednesday, in a case that's brought journalism ethics into question.
Shandong province in East China is known around the world for being a cultural center. So, itis a small wonder that its dialects have become the basis of a popular reality TV show.
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