The U.S. House of Representatives will hold a vote Tuesday night on the Senate-approved bill aimed at averting the so-called "fiscal cliff," local media reported.
Russia is probably the only country where for children the acronym "DM" stands not for the famed British rock band Depeche Mode, but for Ded Moroz, which literally means Grandfather Frost, the Russian analogue of the Western Santa Claus.Artem, 8, who seems to know nearly everything about Ded Moroz, has not lost a belief in his existence as a real person.
The official data adds to signs that the world's second largest economy is emerging from a recent slumber.The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) reached 50.6 in December, unchanged from the previous month.
About 500 Canadians braved the below freezing temperatures and plunged right into the New Year with an icy dip into Lake Ontario here Tuesday.
A new hybrid of flower, Noctilucent Butterfly Orchid, will be at sale on the biggest in-door Chinese New Year Flower of Hong Kong beginning on January 25 in East Point City.
A 17-year-old Indian girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly raped by two men at a New Year's party in a middle class residential zone in the Indian capital, local daily Times of India reported on Wednesday.
Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso is due to pay a four-day visit to Myanmar starting Wednesday as Myanmar is in rapid progress with a series of reforms.
Travelers from 45 countries can now benefit from a 72-hour visa-free stay policy in Beijing and Shanghai, a move that could attract more transit visitors.
China's state news agency Xinhua unveiled its list of 10 most attention-grabbing events of China in 2012, including medical reform, first female astronaut, first aircraft carrier.
Traditionally, China celebrates its lunar New Year with more extravaganza, but still, festivities were seen in many cities on Monday night to usher in the year of 2013.
Hong Kong has secured the position as the fourth largest IPO venue in the world, according to a report released on Tuesday by Deloitte, one of the four major accounting firms.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is fully aware of the complexity of his condition three weeks after cancer surgery in Cuba, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday.
Maduro said that these new complications were caused by respiratory infection that afflicts Chavez for at least two days. He said he had the opportunity to talk to the president to update the country's situation for him listened to his instructions
Hong Kong police said that they' re expecting about 100,000 people to gather at the city's main venues -- Tsim Sha Tsui, Central and Wan Chai -- to watch the fireworks displays on New Year's Eve next Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized with blood clot, and is being treated with anti-coagulant, her spokesman said Sunday night.
December's HSBC China final manufacturing PMI rose to a 19-month high of 51.5, thanks to stronger new business in-take and expansion of production, according to figures released by HSBC Monday.
China's Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers' children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally.
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