As many as 150,000 retired military personnel, civil servants and public school teachers took to the streets in Taipei on Sept 3 to protest against the government's pension reform plans, which they said were an insult to their professions.
This summer has seen Asia and the Pacific rocked by intense and unstable weather, bringing into even greater focus the need to build resilience against climate change and extreme weather.
Leaders of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held an informal meeting on Sunday morning before the G20 Summit began in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, and vowed to coordinate their policies, increase communications, deepen cooperation and jointly tackle challenges.
The EU and US representatives have held 14 rounds of talks in the past three years trying to reach an ambitious free-trade deal, but top French and German officials were criticizing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.
In a windowless basement of a 30-story building, about a dozen female domestic workers were attending a meeting where they shared their employment experiences.
Despite their numbers continuing to rise, China's 20 million domestic workers have few ways of making their voices heard. However, a small group of domestic workers in Beijing is attempting to communicate through drama.
Hundreds of thousands of women choose to become domestic workers in Beijing. Most do the work because wages in the metropolis are higher than in other cities, but for some, the work offers an opportunity for domestic tourism and a chance to broaden their horizons in China's ancient capital.
China is accelerating efforts to make its capital a national high-tech innovation hub, as a leading example of the country's innovation drive, by achieving breakthroughs in key technologies and easing permanent residence procedures for overseas experts.
Ministries have responded to a series of media and public inquiries about policies in the last week.
China's furry national icon has been downgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable" on the global list of species at risk of extinction. But experts in China warn that the good news for the giant panda could be short-lived and may require an even greater conservation investment.
Central China's Hunan province now has a scholarly acting governor, after the local legislature accepted the resignation of the province's governor, Du Jiahao.
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