On Dec. 25, well-known female investigative journalist Tatyana Chornovol was driving to her home on the outskirts of Kiev when she was suddenly cut off by another car forcing her to stop. Two men jumped out of the car, smashed Chornovol’s car window, dragged her out of her own vehicle and brutally assaulted her before throwing her into a ditch.
Prime Minister Shinto Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo today amid strong negative reactions from Japan's neighbor-countries, saying his visit was to mourn the dead and not to hurt the feelings of China and South Korea.
On the 27th, Kunming's Long Water airport was enveloped in a thick yellow fog. At 5 PM, due to low visibility from smog all flights were stopped. Almost the entire airport was covered in a haze causing a level one emergency shutdown.
Director Wong Kar Wai's martial arts epic, "The Grandmaster", has been selected to be Hong Kong's entry in the best foreign language film category at the 86th Academy Awards, the Federation of Motion Film Producers announced on Monday.
According to the economic consultancy CEBR's World Economic League Table (WELT) China’s GDP will overtake the U.S. in 2028 to become the world’s largest economy - much later than some analysts have suggested.
Back in September, Singer Faye Wong shocked her fans with news of her divorce from husband Li Yapeng after 8 years of marriage. And now she has taken their seven-year-old daughter back to her fold after learning that Li hadn't been taking care of her.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has awarded licenses to several private domestic companies to operate as mobile virtual network operators in a move to add competition and variety into China's monopolized mobile telecoms sector.
Chu Jian, a vice-president at top-ranked Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling public funds. The case is currently under investigation by the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Prosecutors Office and no further details were officially revealed.
It's recently been discovered that a Civil Affairs Bureau in Xinjiang Province had issued hundreds of fake marriage certificates for over a year, impacting thousands of couples. The surprising revelation would never have seen the light of day if it was not for one couple’s quest to buy an apartment.
World Record holder and Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang may soon be allowed to start training with the national team again and take part in upcoming swimming competitions, according to the Chinese Swimming Administration Center.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) voted to abolish the administrative punishment system known as laojiao or re-education through labor (RETL). The measure had been submitted to the NPC for deliberation by the State Council last November.
Hundreds of teachers in Hubei had refused to go to class and instead gathered in protest at an athletic field demanding a fair salary.
Traffic police this week nabbed a red cargo truck carrying 12,033 rounds of artillery shells along the Shanghai highway. The surprising discovery of the dangerous cargo prompted Police to immediately contact the Lichuan City Public Security Bureau, which has now taken over the investigation.
Beauty contestants compete in the finals of the 10th Miss International of China, Russia and Mongolia in China's border city Manzhouli, on Dec. 24, 2013.
