KABUL, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Afghan army and police, backed by NATO-led coalition troops, have eliminated 16 Taliban insurgents and detained 23 others during military operations within the last 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday morning …

The city of Mainyang, Sichuan Province said it will pay back a donation from Hong Kong which was used to rebuild an earthquake-shattered high school that has since been demolished to make way for a commercial development. Meanwhile, the Sichuan governmen …

Philippine senators are set to vote Tuesday on whether to sack the nation's top judge after a historic trial over alleged corruption which saw him accused of hiding millions of dollars in assets. The first Philippine Supreme Court chief justice to stand …

BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Environmental Protection has required 74 cities to apply a more comprehensive air quality monitoring standard and publish daily reports on PM2.5, a hazardous airborne pollutant, by the end of 2012. Cities in t …

DAMASCUS, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and 19 others reportedly injured by a blast of an explosive device that ripped through a bus near the Electronic War Directorate just outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Wednesday, pro- governm …

DAMASCUS, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and 19 others reportedly injured by a blast of an explosive device that ripped through a bus near the Electronic War Directorate just outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Wednesday, pro- governm …

As the Philippines seeks to buy weapons abroad amid a diplomatic crisis with China over the two countries' territorial dispute in the South China Sea, Beijing warned on Tuesday that any attempt by a third country to get involved in the territorial dispu …