Kazakh students say Silk Road will pave way for career openings

The construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt could create more job opportunities for young people in Kazakhstan because it will attract more Chinese businesses to invest in the neighboring country, university students said.

Shanghai rises to occasion with new elevator law

Shanghai has taken the lead in the country in assisting the elderly living in multistory buildings, as the municipality now requires such new buildings to have elevators.

Ukrainian leader vows to punish pro-Russia rebels

Militants shot down Mi-8 helicopter with surface-to-air missile, killing 12

Hanoi's actions around oil rig are 'reckless'

Vietnam has carried out intensive disruption of a Chinese oil company's drilling activities in China's offshore waters since May 2 in spite of China's dissuasion and warning.

NSA releases e-mail from Snowden

Edward Snowden says he repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally, but an NSA search turned up a single e-mail in which Snowden gently asks for "clarification" on a technical legal question about training materials, agency officials said.

Japan to create agency to streamline arms sales

Japan plans to create an arms procurement agency to streamline Tokyo's spending on defense-related hardware that will also promote military exports and take charge of advanced weapons research, said two people with knowledge of the developing plan.

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Tighter taxi app rules hailed

The government's plan to require stricter qualification checks on cabbies seeking a taxi-hailing terminal app would greatly reduce the number of unlicensed taxis in the country, experts said.

New cremation rule shakes old traditions

Authorities in Anqing, Anhui province, say there was no direct relationship between the alleged suicides of several elderly rural residents and the coming burial reforms that require corpses to be cremated.

Beheading of kitten sparks online outrage

A young woman who killed and dismembered a kitten and posted the bloody pictures on the Internet has infuriated Chinese netizens.

Tibet ranks second in wetland preservation

Forestry officials from the Tibet autonomous region said on Wednesday that there are more than 38,000 wetlands within its boundaries covering an area of 6.52 million hectares, making it the second-largest swath of wetlands in China.

Chinese man convicted of wildlife smuggling

A Chinese dealer in antiques was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Tuesday as the ringleader of a crew that smuggled rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory artifacts from the United States to China.