Mr Lu Hengjiu, 35, used to spend hours playing online games, accumulating 10,000 yuan (S$2,016) worth of virtual assets at one point.
Chinese citizens are on their way to getting a civil code as a draft of rules stipulating the code's basic principles was submitted to the country's top legislature for first reading on Monday.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has recruited about 12,300 civil servants at grassroots level in the past six years, said local authorities on Wednesday.
A mystery fire on Thursday engulfed the Nigerian government secretariat, a massive building that houses most of the country's ministries in the capital Abuja, civil servants and local media said.
Thirteen people were killed early Tuesday morning by members of Ugandan rebel group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a civil society source told Xinhua.
The first child to be taken from her parents under the nation's new child protection laws now has a reason to smile - she will be raised by the woman who helped her escape a life of abuse.
The Supreme People's Court will allow mobile phone messages, e-mails, micro-blogging and online chat records to be used as evidence in civil lawsuits.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the two countries have reached an agreement to break a six-year impasse on the landmark civil nuclear deal.
China has raised salaries for public employees sharply this year, after they had been frozen for years and after government officials had been leaving their jobs because of low pay.
Chinese Internet users seemed pleased with the cooling off of "civil servant fever" as fewer people took the national civil service examination on Sunday.
This year's ten-day registration period for the national civil service examination will run until Friday with at least 22,200 government spots to be filled, a new historical high.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that civil servants, whose net monthly wages are below 800,000 riel (200 U.S. dollars), will not be obliged to pay tax on salary.
China's national-level government agencies, their affiliated public institutions and local branches will recruit over 19,000 civil servants in 2014, a slight decrease from 2013.
A possible U.S. military strike against Syria should not overshadow major economic agenda of the ongoing Group of Twenty (G20) summit, representatives from civil societies said Thursday.
Tens of thousands of marchers on Wednesday gathered in misty rains on Washington's National Mall to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech given 50 years ago.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday signed a sub-decree to increase salaries for more than 90,000 lowest-level civil servants.
Four court officials in Shanghai have been suspended from their posts amid an investigation into their alleged hiring of prostitutes at a nightclub.
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