Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said Thursday in Hong Kong that the changes in the way human inhabit the planet have given microbes multiple opportunities to exploit, resulting in new diseases emerging at at alarming rate.
One of the unexpected by-products of China's urbanization is the decline in rural schools over the past decade.
Police have now given a detailed account of how knifeman Min Yongjun carried out a manic attack on 23 schoolchildren in central China's Henan Province.
U.S. President Barack Obama would veto the House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" proposal on " fiscal cliff", a combination of tax increases and spending cuts due on Jan. 1, 2013, the White House said Wednesday.
Foreign direct investment, or FDI, into China fell for the 10th time in 11 months... Following rising labor costs and slowing growth in the country for seven straight quarters.
China and the United States on Wednesday kicked off in Washington the plenary session of the annual trade talks to deepen bilateral trade and business ties.
In a sign of closer economic ties between Taiwan and the Mainland of China, Taiwan's leading trade promotion agency opened its first office in the Chinese mainland Shanghai on Tuesday.
Park Geun-hye, daughter of late dictator Park Chung-hee, is set to become the first female president of South Korea after she won the tightly contested presidential election held Wednesday. Analysts say Park's victory will extend the rules of conservative Saenuri party for another five years, yet the challenge of overcoming partisan wrangling remains.
China successfully sent a Turkish Earth observation satellite named GK-2 into orbit with a Long March carrier rocket on Wednesday.
Growth of the world economy has weakened considerably during this outgoing year and is expected to remain subdued in the coming two years, a UN report said Tuesday.
Eight out of 23 children wounded in a knife attack in central China's Henan Province have been transferred to hospitals in neighboring Hubei Province to receive better treatment, doctors said Tuesday.
Out of concern for its air quality, Beijing has stepped up efforts to phase out old, heavy-polluting motor vehicles, the local environmental watchdog said Tuesday.
A relatively new residential building in east China's Zhejiang Province collapsed on Sunday.
China has detained 93 people for spreading rumors of a forthcoming apocalypse.
After a weakened IPO activity in Greater China in 2012 due to lack of maga deals, Ernst & Young expects China's IPO market to pick up in 2013 as the global economy recovers and the government's supportive policies starts to take effect, the accounting firm said here on Wednesday.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Tuesday appointed Zhang Xiaoming as director of the central government's liaison office in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
The city's Public Security Bureau said foreigners with permanent residency in China now share the same rights and responsibilities as Chinese nationals.
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