Four members of a family were killed on Wednesday after their house collapsed due to heavy snowfall in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
A house on a leafy New York City street where United States (US) President-elect Donald Trump lived as a toddler is being auctioned off by a fellow real estate investor who bought it just last month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that he has no immediate plan of dissolving the lower house of parliament for a snap election and priority for the new year would be on the economy.
Rising debt resulting from soaring home prices and low dairy prices is continuing to pose a risk to New Zealand's financial system, the central bank warned Wednesday.
Chiaki Ono is among an increasing number of people who consider their pets to be family members. But Ono has taken her fondness for her pets a step further than most: She has designed and built a cat-friendly house for her and her beloved felines.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not rule out the possibility of dissolving the lower house of Japan's parliament and calling a snap election as early as next January.
When Edward Gawne went house hunting in an east China village, locals didn't understand why the British man from London wanted to buy such a "dingy and damp" old fixer-upper.
A Kenyan software developer is giving prospective home owners an ingenious option of designing interior finishings of their homes amidst fast rising of property prices in the urban centers.
Legislation on real estate tax once again becomes a highlight on the market. This issue was proposed by the finance minister Lou Jiwei this time.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will regain majority in the upper house of the parliament for the first time in 27 years, after an independent lawmaker submitted the application to join the party, the party said Wednesday.
Half seats of the upper house are up to grab every three years. A total of 389 candidates will contest in the vote through a mix of constituencies and proportional representation.
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Tokyo on Sunday to call for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign and for a law allowing the military to fight overseas to be overturned, as an election for parliament’s upper house draws near.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering delaying a sales tax hike, originally planned in April 2017, by around two years, Japanese media reported on Friday.
A schoolgirl boarding-house in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai was burnt down late Sunday night, killing 17 girls, injuring five others while two girls were missing, a local newspaper quoted police as reporting on Monday.
Japan's lower house of parliament on Monday passed a 778 billion yen (7.15 billion U.S. dollars) extra budget for fiscal 2016 with the funds earmarked for the reconstruction and restoration of regions in the southwest that were rocked by earthquakes last month.
Brazil's lower house on Monday announced a decision to nullify the chamber's vote on impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff, while the Senate decided to move forward and vote on the process on Wednesday as planned.
Indian parliament (the country's lawmaking body) Monday passed the Anti-Hijacking Bill-2016 that provides death penalty to the hijackers even if ground handling staff and airport personnel are killed during such hijacking bids, officials said.
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