The Republic of Korea announced on Friday a crackdown on illegal brokers and unregistered clinics in a bid to protect medical tourists, especially those drawn by the country's booming plastic surgery industry.
A former adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has praised apartheid as a model for how Japan could expand immigration, prompting the government's top spokesman on Friday to emphasize that Japan's immigration policy is based on equality.
Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Friday he hoped Western sanctions on Moscow could soon be lifted following a cease-fire agreement reached in the Belarusian capital Minsk.
Two Al-Jazeera journalists were released from an Egyptian prison on Friday, after spending more than a year behind bars on terror-related charges in a case denounced as a sham by rights groups and the international community.
Press freedom groups and international news organizations unveiled new safety guidelines to protect freelance journalists on Thursday following a series of high-profile kidnappings and murders in conflict zones.
As thousands of mourners attended the funeral prayers on Thursday for three young Muslims killed in North Carolina, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized US President Barack Obama for his silence following the killings.
A six-day-old premature baby has become the youngest infant to receive a heart transplant at a US hospital, doctors and the infant's proud parents said on Thursday.
Canada confirmed on Friday that it had found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, in a beef cow in the province of Alberta. The case is the first in Canada since 2011. No part of the cow had reached the human food or animal feed systems.
Holiday demand, IPOs have financial institutions pressed to meet requirements
Valentine's Day has become the most significant Western holiday for Chinese people, a research firm said in a survey.
Gold jewelry demand cooled in China in 2014, in sharp contrast to the frenzied off take in 2013, and plunged 33 percent year-on-year to 624 metric tons, according to data published by the World Gold Council on Thursday
Slumping crude prices prompting top giants to cut production and reduce operating costs, reports Bloomberg.
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