A female student has written to the CEOs of a number of China's top 500 enterprises to protest against sexual discrimination in the work place.
China's current account and capital and financial account both showed a surplus, and international reserve assets continued to grow in Q1.
Li Xueming, vice-chairman of China Everbright International Ltd, resigned from his post, a move that drove its shares more than 8 percent higher on Thursday.
The extraordinary effects of Chinese herbal medicines have fueled foreign interest in launching research projects into the profitable and interesting field.
A farmer who was jailed for fraud for faking a photo of a rare tiger in a case that shocked the nation has demanded compensation for two suits that went missing during his detention.
Japan's benchmark consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in March from a year earlier for the second straight month of rise, the government said on Friday.
The recent EU's announcement to suspend part of the sanctions against Myanmar was hoped to pave the way for reaching a full-lifting of the sanctions.
PetroChina Company Limited, China's largest oil and gas producer, said its net profit rose 5.8 percent year on year in the first quarter.
Belarus, Ukraine and Russia marked the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident.
Buoyed by an increase in demand from the e-commerce industry, Tesco said it plans to experiment with allowing Chinese customers to go online to order food.
A pilot program that would allow small, non-listed companies to issue bonds to investors has been submitted for government's final approval.
The US and Japan announced on Thursday a revised agreement that will shift 9,000 Marines from that southern Japanese island to Guam and other Asia-Pacific sites.