Myanmar President U Thein Sein met with visiting Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso in Nay Pyi Taw Thursday, said the President's Office.
China's film industry earned about 2.7 billion U.S. dollars at the box office in 2012...But local movies contributed less than half the revenue - despite their overwhelming majority in China's cinemas.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that New York City welcomed a record 52 million visitors in 2012, a new all-time high and a 2.1 percent increase over 2011.
Two major fashion fairs, Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter and HKTDC World Boutique, will kick off concurrently on Jan.14 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and run until Jan. 17.
China's film industry earned about 16.8 billion yuan(2.69 billion U.S. dollars) in the box office in 2012, with domestic movies contributing less than half of the revenue, the Chongqing Economic Times reported on Thursday.
China's railways carried a record number of passengers on the first day of 2013 due to a surge in the number of middle- and short-distance travelers during the three-day New Year holiday, the Ministry of Railways said Thursday.
Heavy snow has been battering Xilin Gol grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for two months, affecting more than eight million farmers and herdsmen.
A splendid firework show and countdown celebration was held in Hong Kong on the eve of 2013 new year.
India has started building an advanced center for agricultural research and education in Nay Pyi Taw to train Myanmar agriculturists, official media reported Thursday.
The producers of the award season's frontrunners including "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Les Miserables" have been chosen as possible contenders for the top honor bestowed by the Producers Guild of America (PGA), the group announced Wednesday.
Fiji's new national flag which will be designed this year will focus on uniting the island nation, the prime minister's office Thursday.
Markets worldwide rallied Wednesday after U.S. Congress averted the fiscal cliff, but the deal failed to address the massive spending that threatens the world's economic growth engine, analysts said.
Violence intensified on Wednesday across war-torn Syria with reports of shelling in several areas and military showdown at a military airport in the north, as the United Nations put the death toll of the 22-month conflict at more than 60,000 people.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been officially discharged from a New York hospital after she was treated for a blood clot, the State Department said on Wednesday.
Chinese drivers face harsher penalties after a revised regulation came into effect in the new year. Despite the new rules, various violations occurred on Tuesday among drivers.
The largest New Year celebration in the U.S. West, 124th Annual Rose Parade, was held in Pasadena, California on Jan 1st, 2013. An estimated one million spectators watched the world famous Rose Parade along the 5.5-mile route and about 39 million viewers on television.
The tunnel of a metro line under construction in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, collapsed Wednesday afternoon. Two workers have been rescued and one remain trapped.
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