Over 500,000 people registered to take China's national civil-service examinations only six days since registration began. The average number of applicants per position reaches 19.25:1.
The third plenary of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPVCC) opened Monday to decide on nomination for top leadership positions of the country.
Intensified air strikes targeted positions of the Islamic State (IS) on Sunday in Syria, killing and wounding tens of IS militants, activists and local media said,as President Bashar al-Assad slammed the French and British anti- terror efforts as lacking the will and vision to defeat IS.
Russian nighttime cruise missile strikes targeted and destroyed several positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in three Syrian provinces, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported Wednesday, citing a military source.
Thousands of rebels are fleeing their positions toward Turkey and Jordan, as a result of the Russian and Syrian airstrikes, the state-run TV reported Tuesday.
Sri Lanka's newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena swore in a 27-member cabinet along with nine deputy ministers here on Monday.
The United States and its allies conducted a total of 27 airstrikes against Islamic State ( IS) forces in Syria and Iraq within a 24-hour period, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement Monday.
The United States is continuing with airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria and Iraq over the past three days, and U.S. and partner-nation military forces have launched 13 airstrikes in Iraq, a statement of U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday.
The Kuomintang Party won six county and city chief seats in Taiwan's biggest-ever local elections held Saturday, while the opposition Democratic Progressive Party landed 13 seats, according to the island's electoral authorities.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday announced as part of the department's plans to remove gender-based barriers to service, the Pentagon is to rescind a 1994 rule that prohibits women from assignment to direct ground combat positions.
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