China's accelerating urbanization and booming tourism have threatened the preservation of ancient villages that have retained their local cultural heritage for generations.
A coach plunged off a bridge in Lom Sak district of north Thailand's Phetchabun province, leaving at least 31 people dead and four others injured, local media reported on Friday.
Japan's Okinawa governor on Friday approved the landfill work to relocate the U.S. Futenma airbase within the Japanese southernmost prefecture, reported local media.
The chairman of a fisheries cooperative association in a southwestern Japan city was shot and died on Friday morning, local press reported.
Chinese leaders have made cleaning up government debt a crucial task for next year, threatening to tighten fiscal discipline to defend financial stability.
Chinese leaders have made cleaning up government debt a crucial task for next year, threatening to tighten fiscal discipline to defend financial stability.
The Osaka Prefectural Assembly rejected Monday a controversial plan to sell a private railway company to a U.S. investment firm after local residents shared concerns that the plan puts too much emphasis on the bidding price rather than maintaining stable local transportation, officials said.
China's official evaluation system has abandoned GDP-obsessed assessments and puts more emphasis on public well-being and the environment.
A construction crane crashed on a supermarket in the German town of Bad-Homburg near Frankfurt on Wednesday, causing at least five injuries and possibly one death, local media reported.
A long-running spat between Changqing oil field and Yulin government in northwest China's Shanxi Province has moved a step closer to being resolved after 21 of the oil and gas producer's 22 bank accounts were unfrozen. A Yulin government official confirmed the decision to Xinhua earlier this week.
For 35 poor households on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a beam-raising ceremony in a newly-built village marks the start of a new life with solar power heating and modern grassland husbandry.
China's grass-roots community-based non-government organizations (NGOs) are gaining recognition and support from society and government in their efforts on AIDS control.
China aims to create a standardized risk-warning system to better handle government debts, the Communist Party of China (CPC) said in a policy document released on Friday.
At least 100 people are feared dead after a storm hit the coastal areas of Somalia's northeastern autonomous state of Puntland over the weekend, local authorities said on Monday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday called for the peaceful completion of Kosovo elections, and urged an immediate investigation into attacks on polling stations.
One week before the much-anticipated plenary session of China's leadership, senior officials, retired reformers, academics and UN staff have flocked to China's southern island province of Hainan to discuss what reforms China will map out.
A five-year-old child was "in critical condition" after falling off a boat at Disneyland Paris in Seine-et-Marne, local medias quoted the police as saying on Wednesday.
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