Chinese authorities have been striking fear into corporate executives as President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign rolls into its third year of implementation.
Nanshan District People's Court in the southern city of Shenzen has recently heard a case on gay workplace discrimination, believed to be a first in Chinese history and could have endless legal and moral repercussions.
At least 49 elite cops from the Philippine National Police - Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) were killed in action during a clash on Sunday with Muslim rebels in the southern part of the country amid an ongoing ceasefire.
A Monday Shanghai Daily piece reported on a speech delivered by the mayor of Shanghai, Yang Xiong, who described the eastern commerce hub as a city at a "critical stage of innovation-driven economic transformation."
President Xi Jinping himself is not impressed with what China has achieved in terms of its GDP. For him, a country should not be judged by China alone.
Despite the idea being unpopular around the world, President Xi Jinping claims that Marxism just might be the key to solve some of the country's biggest problems. The president also thinks the ideology has the power to unite officials in time of change.
A surge of Chinese high school students are going abroad to pursue education overseas in order to avoid the study time involved in preparing for the National College Entrance Exam or the Gaokao.
Chinese consumers prefer Japanese rice than the locally produced rice because of fear of contamination with the latter.
The Tibet Autonomous Region will be proposing a new law that would serve to ensure the protection of the sky burials, a traditional Tibetan ritual that gathered much controversy after tour guides started leading tours to view the ceremony.
A strategic alliance was arranged in Beijing for the obliteration of copyright infringement and counterfeiting to promote the improvement of the protection of intellectual property rights.
When Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell, 22, was announced as Miss Universe 2014 fourth runner-up, the audience expecting her to win the crown booed in protest and shortly after, #MissJamaicaShouldHaveWon trended on Twitter.
A woman from Colorado was given a four-year prison sentence for wanting to help the ISIS terrorist group.
A boy, 7, from College Springs, Iowa has been attacked to death by his family's two dogs in the afternoon of Jan. 22, Thursday.
North Korean airline Air Koryo is again named as the world's worst for the fourth consecutive time.
Following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, the newly crowned king of Saudi Arabia gained thousands of Twitter followers.
